Mythology as a Living Story: Navigating a Multicultural Mythological Landscape

What mythologies run your world? It's not a matter of whether or not they are ... it's a matter of which ones are doing so. Let me be clear, I can appreciate the Christian mythology but ultimately, my personal story expanded beyond the boundaries of what that (the Christian) mythology ALONE could offer me.

That doesn't mean I can't or don't find use in it - just that Christianity is only one PART of a much greater whole that opens itself up to me. That is to say that there's lots of deep rich mythology I can make use of inside the Christian tradition ... when it's connected on the inside to with these other patterns of existence outside of the Christian view can be in touch with.

Now, the trouble I find is that's one of the short-end differences in the genetic make-up between Polytheistic viewpoints and Monotheistic ones - feel free to keep yours but updating regular is still important whether you stay inside that tradition or operate outside of it. A Christian may or may not forever say Christianity IS the whole, not part of it, whereas these other mythologies I'm happy to partake in certainly provide some counter intuitive viewpoints to that of what Christianity was able to share with me having grown up in a particular part of town.

Now, as a mythologist and a storyteller, I won't throw the baby out with the bath water here, and I can still make use of the Christian mythology. However, in my experience, the more viewpoints I'm willing to absorb not just from inside any given tradition but connected with everything outside those traditions (including Christianity) as well, the more possibilities that, in my mind at least, become available to me that aren't available to others, or not, and still remain to yet be seen.