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José Saramago, Cain (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)
Roland Barthes, Mythologies (tr. Annette Lavers)

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Isn't it fascinating, something that cultures across the globe appear to have in common, is storytelling: folklores, myths, legends, oral traditions.
To explain natural phenomena that our ancestors at the time did not have the scientific and medical information for.
To teach life lessons they have learned to the next generations.
To scare the naughty children and get them to behave nicer.
To lull restless children to sleep.
To pass time, because let's face it, most people had few means of entertainment at the time many, many years ago.
To bring comfort in times of hardships.
And thousands of years later, we are still telling these stories. I think it's beautiful.
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Erlik God of the Underworld
(Mongol Mythology)
Myth does not deny things, on the contrary, its function is to talk about them; simply, it purifies them, it makes them innocent, it gives them a natural and eternal justification, it gives them a clarity which is not that of an explanation but of a statement of fact.
Roland Barthes, Mythologies

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Roland Barthes, Mythologies, 1957
Fleeing paganism, Väinämöinen gives way to the power of the cross (1860) by Robert Wilhelm Ekman. Cygnaeus Gallery.