The Importance of Mythological Studies
When studying myths for the in-class group presentation and explaining the intricacies of how such myths came to be, along with their importance in relation to modern occurrences, parsing through the pages of myths and diverse folk tales aided well when it came time to create my own mythological website. While drafting my myth, I found that the research I had partaken in, preceding the website regarding myths, enabled me to utilize pre-existing folklore as the foundation for my original mythos. In consideration of Greek Mythology, I took many elements from the period and used them as a basis for my myth on procrastination, inserting an original Greek God into the already vast world of Greek Mythology, even taking the creative liberty of using pre-existing Gods and events to further my mythos. In terms of differences in researching myths versus creating my own, I found that making my own myth was creatively liberating, as I did not need to worry so much about piecing together the intric...
