Myths and Making
Just recently we made our own myths in class, and I was initially pretty scared of what that all entailed. I thought that myths had to be historically grounded, because the myths that we studied usually were, but I didn't consider that the myths themselves were created to try and understand something historically. Kind of obvious now, but of course the Mt. Fuji myths I read didn't research Mt. Fuji and its symbolism before being made. Rather, the myths attempted to answer questions the people of that time had, and when this clicked, it made writing my own myth a lot easier. I first thought of questions I myself would like to have answered, but they all seemed either too specific to me or too vague to do in a short time. I decided to write on something I had stumbled across online around that time. being why British food gets the (almost deserved) bad rap in America. So I focused on the modern British baked potato, or "spud," as they call it. Apparently it's pretty...