The Archeology of Myth
a project by
David Dotson
Mythologies have always addressed very big, scary issues; Death, Time, Sex, Birth, Loss, Valor, Shame, all of the things that push on and preoccupy the human psyche.
In times past we have relied on myth to view and interpret the world and ourselves. We love and relate to our heroes and our monsters alike. Myth is still a powerful tool of discovery that has a way of connecting our inner selves to the hidden or avoided realms that surround us.
As time passes and the Modern world progresses, the predominance of myth as a means of attunement has lessened and the role of helpful trickster once occupied by Shamans, has passed to Artists.
The Shaman and the Artist are both able to inhabit many worlds at once, to illuminate the mundane and familiar that is so easily passed by in our day to day living. Acting as catalysts we help to reveal the nature and conditions of being that have become lost or forgotten.
In times past we have relied on myth to view and interpret the world and ourselves. We love and relate to our heroes and our monsters alike. Myth is still a powerful tool of discovery that has a way of connecting our inner selves to the hidden or avoided realms that surround us.
As time passes and the Modern world progresses, the predominance of myth as a means of attunement has lessened and the role of helpful trickster once occupied by Shamans, has passed to Artists.
The Shaman and the Artist are both able to inhabit many worlds at once, to illuminate the mundane and familiar that is so easily passed by in our day to day living. Acting as catalysts we help to reveal the nature and conditions of being that have become lost or forgotten.
