Myths, and Their History

Many cultures have stories that tell us how things in nature are explained and clarified. These particular kinds of stories are entitled as myths.

Myths are stories that are told long time ago, long before people had learned about the scientific explanations of individuals. Myths also teach a lesson and sometimes give a moral as well as explained the unknown secrets that lay, uncovered in the rich soil of our Earth. The people of long time ago told myths to help them explain and understand the many mysterious mysteries that arise in nature.

Myths are told all around the world, especially in the western hemisphere of the globe. Until today, especially uneducated people from the countryside some people stills believe in myths, myths that are told in the ancient time, long time ago.

There are some popular myths, in the world called, The Boy Who Flew, Arachne, The Story of Ceres and Proserpina, and some others.

The Boy Who Flew is a myth about a father and a son who escaped their prison cell by flying out. The father, Daedalus, made wings from sea gulls’ feathers and he taught his son, Icarus, how to fly. However, Icarus decided to disobey his father’s instructions on flying, fell from the sky, and drowned. Daedalus was very depressed, because his only son was dead. From that day on, he never made another pair of wings, and perhaps that is why, today, you don’t see people flying around in the sky.

Arachne was a girl with awe-inspiring, amazing, and astonishing weaving skills. She was too overconfident with her craft works on weavings that she challenged a goddess. They competed each other and Arachne angered Athena, the goddess of wisdom and all crafts. So Athena turned her into a spider. And as the ancient people believes it, that’s how a spider became one of the many creatures that existed on Earth.

The Story of Ceres and Proserpina, the myth, explains why half the year, crops and other farm plants don’t grow well. It is because Ceres mourns for her daughter, Proserpina, when she has to return to the underworld, each year. Because Ceres is the goddess of fertility, half every year, while Proserpina is in the underworld, she would not make the earth fertile, unless her daughter returns to her from Pluto, the evil underworld god.

As you can see, the myths all teaches lessons about human behaviors, telling us that even myth characters can feel the emotions we felt when we are angry, happy, excited, jealous, etc.