Mythologizing

Creating a story of living and dying that reflects the origins and end of existence and the struggle of life in between. The story must be consistent with people's experience of natural and social phenomena and should give them profound significance in history among mankind.

1. Mythologizing enriches a people's will to act together and to make sacrifices for their common endeavours. It makes "sense" out of life and death in both rational and non-rational ways.

1. Mythologizing taps people's faith without clear reference to their critical intelligence. It thus permits superstition, bigotry and hoaxes.

1. Forming

1. Releasing new mythology
2. Relating stories to life situations
3. Rehearsing stories
4. Regenerating myths
5. Recreating individual myth
6. Recreating human mythology
7. Recounting inclusive myths
8. Re-articulating needs-oriented myths
9. Providing raw materials for social myths
10. Illuminating mythological interpretations of sexuality
11. Grounding myths in reality
12. Forming societal myths and images
13. Enlivening community mythology
14. Developing mythology of global leadership
15. Designing myth-bearing decor
16. Demanding meaning-giving stories
17. Demanding continuation of primordial stories
18. Creating family myth
19. Communicating local mythology
20. Articulating social mythology

1. Reforming images
2. Injecting images of the profound
3. Clericalism

1. Weakening oligarchy effectiveness myth

1. Habit-forming

1. Encyclopedia Mythica