In his book\u00a0Wisdom of the Mythtellers<\/em>, Sean Kane defines myth-telling as \u201can affectionate counterpoint to the earth\u2019s voices, with no ambition to direct them or force them to give up their meanings,\u201d while myth expresses the \u201cideas and emotions of the Earth\u201d (1994), of landscapes and ecosystems. The environment that encircles us is the home of the planet\u2019s essential stories. Myth is open and adapts to the contexts in which it is performed or recounted. If closed and fixed, it fossilizes into a religion, a dogmatic moral system. \u201cA way of obeying instead of a way of seeing\u201d (Kane,\u00a0Wilderness Storytelling<\/em>\u00a036). \u201cMemory is in a state of creative incompleteness, which is probably as good a characterization as any of culture, education and oral mythology.\u201d (Kane,\u00a0Wilderness Storytelling<\/em>\u00a035). Myth-telling In his book\u00a0Wisdom of the Mythtellers, Sean Kane defines myth-telling as \u201can affectionate counterpoint to the earth\u2019s voices, with no ambition to direct them or force them to give up their meanings,\u201d while myth expresses the \u201cideas and emotions of the Earth\u201d (1994), of landscapes and ecosystems. The environment that encircles us is the… Read More »Myth-telling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1026","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildspirits.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildspirits.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildspirits.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildspirits.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildspirits.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wildspirits.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/wildspirits.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1026\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildspirits.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Myth-telling may be an art of oral history and the performance of stories that establish the origins and development of ecologies that are both physical and ethical. Myth itself doubles the actuality of places, animals and persons with their intellectual and spiritual identities, connecting listeners with a cultural view of the world as landscape rather than a bare bones \u201cwhat you see is what you get\u201d spaces. Myth thus reminds and inserts its subjects and listeners into the arc of historical narratives of meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"