Mythic Brands and Dangerous Books
Wednesday, December 13th, 2006Seth Godin chatted a bit about the elusive marketing power of myth the other day (link). You may remember that some time ago I wrote (link and link and link) about our personal and cultural myths and touched on the fact that we, by and large, leave a lot of our myth-making to corporations these [...]
Female Tricksters
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006I realized, while compiling a list of tricksters for Monday’s post that no female trickster figures spring to mind. While this is moderately acceptable for my own personal belief structure*, it’s unsupportable for me as a storyteller. So, I went digging.
There is, of course, the fact that most trickster figures are quite capable of shapeshifting [...]
6 Tags: Return of the Monday Meme
Monday, September 25th, 2006I was called out to participate in a meme by Chico from nongames (link). It’s been a while since I posted a Monday meme and the meme is interesting, so I figured… why not?
The idea is to post 6 inter-related elements from… anywhere. Now, this is coming to me from the gaming community and I’m [...]
The Puzzle Tapestry of Myth
Thursday, October 20th, 2005
My last thoughts on myth involved the role of the storyteller in the propagation of myth. In that post, I sketched out a brief overview of the evolution of myth keepers into diverse social roles: priest, political advisor, and actor. Well, it’s not just the myth keepers and storytellers who went their separate [...]
Skalds and Priests
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005Skalds and Priests: The Role of the Storyteller in Creating Myth
So, I’ve argued that cultural icons such as Batman, Chandler Bing, and James Bond do not qualify as myths. The hastily constructed lynch pin of my argument was that these properties… let me stress that again, Superman, MacGuyver, and Raymond Shaw are properties… anyway, [...]
Amalgamyths
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005My post, Storytelling Begins at Home sparked an interesting comment or two (the more on-topic comments about personal myth, not my jaded views on modern religion and the forces of evil consumerism). Both Chris’s and my anonymous Guest’s comments led me to thinking about the amalgamation of myths, from a cultural and corporate viewpoint.