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• stories in monotheistic religions about myths as the voice of the landscape
• so i would say that men in myth masculine figures and myth are oftentimes the ones i'm really
• and for me i i've always thought of myths as being the voice of the landscape
• could travel and are never updated is that you get this idea that myths can travel but the truth is they can travel
• metaphor when i was writing this book about myths and masculinity of saying that
• that myths are mushrooms of a certain place they're coming from a deep underground
• traveling stories and the value of you know taking in myths from other places or say
• arrive from the landscape you know if myths and stories are the the mouth of the ecosystem what stories are arriving
• just looking at the the tech myth and and that same sort of like when we really look at the

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• parables weren't they didn't fit into the expected traditional roles of myth and storytelling in scripture at the
• erect as we think we are this is the myth the hidden cortisol of modern civilization that i stand erect

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• saying she said you know um purity is in impurities a myth and um
• um and i think when we say that idea of purity is a myth because she went where it landed for me when she brought it
• right so in that sense i think where purity can be a myth is when we think that it's something that we can isolate

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• never going back to origins purity is a myth what we need is the compost tea which is

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• of around gender and sexuality including our relationship to stories myths the earth
• you know we think of myth and science as being opposed the poet robert bringhurst actually inspired
• but they're actually doing the same thing you know myths personify the elementals in order to
• similar aim if we go back to the root and for me myth is a way of overhearing the earth and overhearing how it wants
• the earth and overhearing how it wants to be taken care of and that myth is something that rises up like you know
• called mycelium and so i think of of myths as being these fruitings of specific ecologies
• certain times to harvest things that i've been thinking about myths as being you know an oral culture where you can't
• don't get stuck or ossify um and so i think of myths as being a carrying body for ecological information
• when they're rooted but the problem is many of our myths especially as they get translated through chirographic culture
• i don't know but um yeah that to think of myth as actually a living part of living breathing earth
• um we're kind of we're touching here on what you do with ecology and myth to a certain extent and then i would really
• i am doing a six-week course with edvaya um and it's called myth and mycelium and you can find it at
• far back in the caves with you know neolithic myths early neolithic bronze age myths
• neolithic myths early neolithic bronze age myths into dionysus the mediterranean basin

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• the charleston up late by rhianne eisler and bearing's work with the myth of the goddess i was obsessed with these
• them in a new cosmology and so what i say is monster myths or mother myths you can't kill the mother
• and so what i say is monster myths or mother myths you can't kill the mother but you can turn her into a monster like
• it gives us a more complex way of having a context myth analysis where we say who are the monsters of today's myths and
• a context myth analysis where we say who are the monsters of today's myths and what could they be hiding what's in the
• should be constantly be changing and moving so to pretend like old myths from different ecosystems can be transplanted
• always saying is like we can we can re-root these myths that have been deracinated but deracinated from their
• different than what i grew up with well i would say i did a class myth and mycelium with the environmental platform
• um sacred flowering weinberg is how the myths of the past sort of got transcribed on top of jesus too like for
• thesis of the flowering wand is that myths are like mushrooms which is they look above ground like individuals but
• it seems to me when you start to play with the with the myths in this way yeah i mean it's very paired with a very

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• of of myth and storytelling in scripture at the time period his parables were
• erect as we think we are this is the myth the hidden codicil of modern civilization that i stand erect that my

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• mean i really deeply believe that like myth is the land and that we personify these elementals um and that we we give
• quadriceps unilateralis i oftentimes think that myth at its best is is grabbing you by the feet like garcia
• sprouting through your head and you know if you're a good myth teller you might die in the process you know and just to
• fungi into an ecosystem they come a map of relationships and if you pour a myth in the old oral sense of a myth into a
• of relationships and if you pour a myth in the old oral sense of a myth into a place that becomes a map of
• then recomposing it um i'm wondering if there were any myths or stories that you were reading or
• and ways of knowing and observing and um and recording and telling and and myth and so he he brought with him a whole
• and so he he brought with him a whole sort of a whole world of myth uh and story
• many different parts of the world in so many different myths from alice in wonderland to inanna to
• thinking a lot about looking at underworld myths is always having you have to risk your own individual heroic
• um i mean i also think it's interesting so i oftentimes talk about myths that are deracinated that are uprooted from
• tristan from the tristan and his old myth and i was saying like what am i missing here what what if you're much
• storytelling or this this i understanding of these myths and the roots of these myths you know
• i understanding of these myths and the roots of these myths you know because i

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• there are a couple of thinkers who've really articulated for me what myth is um i would say ursula le guin
• kane and for them myth doesn't belong to human beings that's what i always say is
• human beings that's what i always say is myth is is um it's kind of like when the fungi
• but i think of human beings as being myth bearers myth tellers but myth is being more than human as being a way of
• relationship with land and so when a myth is functioning in a correct way in a rast like in a rooted
• do have to like re-articulate stories that help you myths that help you keep yourself in check so i think myths are
• that help you myths that help you keep yourself in check so i think myths are about that kind of self-checking
• phenomena and for so much longer than that myths were oral participatory conversational they were always every
• it yeah it's movement it's process um and so the act of writing myths down and and ossifying them keeping them
• chinook language classes yeah and in the winter time it's myth time so you know they uh basically you can't tell myths
• winter time it's myth time so you know they uh basically you can't tell myths outside of this the chinook and people
• the number of taboos that they had but one of those you can't tell myths outside of season so um and their season
• stop telling um myths you know when the first frogs uh started croaking or whatever right
• the taboo um but in in learning those myths about this place it's interesting because i've learned
• crogs are croaking already so we're out of myth time but i can't tell snippets of it one of the instances in the story
• about learning the myths or or being in the culture of the people that tell them is that if you
• of these written um and out and and myths that are taken completely out of their
• on a very in a very modern way we kind of fetishize indigenous myths we deracinate them we make them very cute
• there's most of our myths are deracinated and then it's like taking a tropical plant
• and i mean the biggest problem is taking these mediterranean myths deracinating them translating them through the
• it's like civilization has created all these myths about resisting wildness so much because and and fearing and cree i
• it's a really interesting book about civilization debunking these myths about ecology it's a good one
• uh accounts of shaman shamanism across the world and then the different myths from different societies about taboos
• old which is like kind of the story that predates are the arthurian myths it's basically what becomes aritharian myths
• predates are the arthurian myths it's basically what becomes aritharian myths and
• so originally rewild portland was called myth media oh yeah i saw that yeah yeah and that
• media arts through mythology through creating new myths and i feel like there's a pendulum that
• okay um when you when you say like the retelling of these older myths like that to me just get for whatever reason i
• different things right um feeling that that that it's not just a myth that's popping up it's like a literal thing
• i can i can feel the tendril i think of myths as being so mushrooms are the reproductive events of
• mushroom and the mushroom sporulates so myths i think of are reproductive events of below ground
• reproductive events of below ground sometimes myths story land information that's gone quiet
• like i doubt that if i wrote 10 new myths to the masculine anyone would want to read it and i wouldn't want to write
• so why did you choose the particular myth uh in your the book that you're writing now or the um
• version of tristan and his old which is an ancient myth which was living in my ancestral heritage so i didn't know this
• that's awesome what what myths or stories for you right now do you feel like
• end up fetishizing they like accept the roman myth but don't turn it around and recognize that it was like propaganda
• mind in a couple of days and i do think that the one thing about myth is that we should change our myths and change our
• that the one thing about myth is that we should change our myths and change our minds and we should constantly be

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• sacred experience of looking back on these older myths and seeing the cycle rather than the linear narrative which
• um sporulate and then decay and i think my theory of myth is really that
• that we see these above ground myths but they're really just the reproductive
• and it might be interesting to reroute some of these myths in their ecological context their social context