Metempsychosis

I have to admit,  I had fully expected to enjoy the lecture given in this class, but I didnt expect to be so caught up in the importance of literature, and stories, to the human race.  As one of those "science" students, I often become caught up in the black and white of the world.  Listening on Wednesday, I realized that often I forget to look at the "colors," or my own interpretations of the world around me.

I loved the idea from lecture of metempsychosis; that nothing ever really dies.  Our family will carry on our legacy even after we are gone.  In the physical scientific way, we are dead, but everyone has a history.  I decided to ask my mother for some details on my own family to see what my own history was.  What I found most interesting was a myth from my Dad's side of the family.  According to the story,  a young girl in Germany, born of higher birth married a poorer farmer against the will of her family, as a result, she was cut off from the family and given only a small portion of her dowery.  When they were married, the farmer and girl were given a new name which is the creation of my own last name.  Is it through these kind of stories passed down through generations that a kind of metempsycosis occurs?

In this same was creation passed down.  There are thousands of creation myths.  But what is a myth.  Since it is derived from the word mythos, it is the precedent behind all actions.  In this since, these creation stories are the precedent.  They have been passeddown through generations through many cultures,  but after looking through the sumerizations ofa handful of these myths, a pattern appeared.  While I didnt look at enough of the myths to completely confirm my thoughts, it seemed that a pattern of a diety, or many dieties came together in a nothingness to create the world, with the order and way of creation varying throughout the different myths.  If creation is a mythology, or mythological story, it makes melean more toward the side of mythology being the truth of stories.