Everlasting Love

Examining the way a society envisions their own creation, reveals the principles they believe are the most basic and fundamental. If you want to uphold a value, having it present at the beginning of time allows it resonate with all your peoples, shaping their character to the core, because the value is seen as a value that all of humanity has seated within them, time immemorial. The Iroquois people's creation story of a giant turtle sprouting from the vast ocean, and from this ancient turtle all forms of life flow, shows the importance they place upon the earth, honouring it constantly because it is from which they too came. The Abrahamic religions believe in the story of Adam and Eve, in which the fundamental concept of sinning is the main factor, this shows that one of their core values is right from wrong, and resisting temptation. In the Classical Civilization the theme of motherly love is present.

Gaea's unrelentless love for her children, no matter their beastly attributes is a driving force in the creation myth, showing the importance they place on a mothers' loving protection, loyalty to the hearth, and most sacred of bonds between mother and child. These values resonate in the old greek culture with their adherence to the power of the maternal entity and its holy properties.

The creation myth of the ancient greeks is long outdated, and virtually no modern human believes that the present state of nature is because of the inner conflicts between immortals who lived on Mount Olympus. We now know that Mount Olympus has no apparent supernatural properties and that Uranus' genitalia most likely did not turn into Aphrodite, but the myth still evokes a human response upon reading, we still see where the characters are coming from, their reasoning, their motives. Be it these entities are fictional, but the because of the human characteristics we empathize with them and are engaged. The reason for this engagement is because this myth, and others like it, deal with the timeless constant of the human experience. Though these characters are ancient and immortal their actions and reactions are understandable, allowing the story to speak truths and speak to us through their themes and morals. Therein lies the value of myths in the modern day, the morals that the ancients learned from these stories can also be learnt by us. The morals of resisting temptation, respecting the earth, and recognizing the unique bond between mother and child are all truths that humans of all times would do good to adhere to.

-Yaseen