The Sun, the Moon, and the Deep Blue Sea
[Image: "Light My Way to the Sea"
© 2007 Carlos Gotay Martínez and used with permission]

"The role of the artist I now understood as that
of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul,
and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth."

— Joseph Campbell

Watch 26 NEWYouTube excerpts
from Mythic Journeys '06!

• The Magic Beanstalk:
  Reimagining
  Mythic Imagination
  
  Mythic Journeys Returns
  In 2009
  
  "When we stood on the stage at the end of Mythic Journeys last June and said that we might not be able to do it anymore, the huge gasp that came up toward us was a wonderment, a satisfaction and a sorrow. Mythic Journeys is meticulously designed, cared for, and enacted so that something spontaneous and living — something in the living moment — can happen."
  — by Honora Foah & Michael Karlin [read on]
  
  

• The Gods Are Our Family
  The Myth of Adapa
  
  "From the beginning of human history the idea of immortality — its getting or its loss — has been a central theme in the myths and stories of every culture. In the Tablets of Lore it occurs many times, especially in the story of Gilgamesh, where the hero at first seeks the immortality of fame, flying in the face of the gods to achieve it, and then, when he at last meets death face to face when his friend Enkidu dies, by seeking actual immortality of the body."
  — by John Matthews [read on]
  
  

• J.F.K.: A View of the Sun God From Inside the
  Television Set
  
  "John F. Kennedy was a man who spent his entire life, from first to last, living inside a television set. If we want to understand that life, then we must, like Alice through the looking glass, crawl up into the radiant, pixilated landscape of television ourselves, and learn to make our way about its contoured rows of ordered electrons, all carefully aligned on a grid and pulsing with life, like huge glowing radioactive eggs."
  — by John David Ebert [read on]
  
  

• The Mermaid of Zennor
  
  "One day, a lovely young woman, a mermaid from Pendour Cove, paid a visit to the church to hear Mathew's beautiful voice. Her name was Morveren and she donned a long dress to hide her icthyian tail. She came day after day to listen to the young man, and then would quietly slip back into the sea."
  — by Jay D'Ambrosio [read on]

• Men, Women,
  and Rats in the Moon
  
  "Human beings look to the night sky and stare at the moon. We know its just a huge hunk of meteor-pocked rock, only visible to us because of reflected light. Its waxing and waning crescents appear when our world comes between it and the sun. We know this fact. We've sent astronauts to confirm the dusty truth that there is no green cheese up there in the sky. Still...it's our quirky human nature to anthropomorphize that which we don't fully understand, finding facial features in the Sea of Tranquility."
  — by Brenda Sutton [read on]
  
  

• Myth
  
  "Why do we continue to be enspelled by folk stories and fairy tales, after all these years? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy; they're about real life."
  — by Terri Windling [read on]

• Our Job is to
  Save Our World:
  A Conversation With
  Robert Swan,
  O.B.E., Explorer
  
  "Robert Swan is the only person who has walked to both the South Pole and the North Pole. Not only is his story fascinating, the implications of what he learned on his treks are incredibly important for the future of Earth and life on Earth."
  — Mary Davis [read on]

• Whispers from Cyberspace
  
  "At a time when the media speaks loudly the language of sex, money and power, the zeitgeist is whispering through the chaos and creativity of the World Wide Web. Like some creative new art form, alive with hope and excitement, the significance and creative stir of possibility taking shape on the Internet has yet to fully reveal itself. Admittedly, much of what is coming through is sorely lacking in substance and direction, yet, more than any other social venue, it remains the powerful voice and individual expression of the collective."
  — by Jerry Wennstrom [read on]

STORIES

• "The Myth of Adapa"
  — retold by John Matthews
  [read on]
  
  
• The Little Mermaid
  — Hans Christian Anderson
  [read on]
  
  
• Sedna of the Deep
  — retold by Brenda Sutton [read on]
  
  
• Bomong & Bong:
  Sisters Moon and Sun
  — retold by Brenda Sutton [read on]
  
  

POEMS

• Fairy Tales for Writers: The Little Mermaid
  — Lawrence Schimel [read on]
  
  
• Inner Seasons
  — Terri Windling [read on]
  
  
• Siren Song
  — Margaret Atwood [read on]
  
  
• Falling and Flying
  — Jack Gilbert [read on]
  
  
• To a Friend Whose Work
  Has Come to Triumph
  — Anne Sexton [read on]
  
  
• Drinking Alone
  — Li Po [read on]
  
  
• The Man in the Moon
  Came Down Too Soon
  — J.R.R. Tolkien [read on]
  
  
• A Grain of Sand
  — Robert W. Service [read on]
  
  

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Filmmaker George Quasha will soon be releasing the Part II of the Myth Is DVD.

If you attended Mythic Journeys '06, you'll remember the documentary that played continuously outside the main programming room with marvelous thinkers like Michael Vannoy Adams, Rebecca Armstrong, Coleman Barks, Phil Cousineau, Meinrad Craighead, William Doty, Kristen Eckmann, James Flannery, Honora Foah, Matthew Fox, Ellen Hemphill, James Hillman, Sam Keen, Robin & Stephen Larsen, Margot McLean, Micheal Meade, Joyce Carol Oates, Ginette Paris, Laurie Patton, Huston Smith, Ulla Suokko and Robert Walter all speaking to the importance and understanding of myth in our modern world.

Part II includes interviews with 431 more amazing minds!

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...you should!

The Mythic Imagination Institute creates experiences that explore
— through art, hands-on activity
and inter-disciplinary conversation —
the mystery and metaphor inherent in myth and story.