The Power of Myth

Through the Hellenistic age in Greece, lived a man known to the modern civilization as Homer. Homer wrote the Illiad and the Odessey, which focus on the events and the aftermath of the Trojan War. Even today historians have not found the remains of the city of Troy, and of the war. Homer's texts which were a historian record, melted down in history as a myth. 

The definition of a myth is an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution. A social institution; The Catholic Church, The Jewish believes, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism. All are social institutions, all unproved collective believes. Today we are living the time of disintegration of the catholic church. We have seen how a religion that has been a central power in the world, for centuries, is losing tons of believers to it's conservatism.

Ancient Greek Religion never died away, it transformed and progressed. It's Gods lived on in the Roman tradition and then went on living as a pagan minority. But today it is seen as a childish bedtime story, used to explain why is there a drought or a rough sea. 

Aldous Huxley portrays a very interesting scenario in his book Brave New World, in which he in a way shows us how the modern civilization has moved on from God, and now adores Henry Ford. Interesting enough, the idea of people adoring Henry Ford, seems as alienating to us as it may have seemed to the Ancient Greeks to adore a man by the name of Jesus.

When I went to Cuba, I found out that the African religion known as Santeria leaves still  in the dark skin and heavy words of the cuban mulattos. interesting enough, Santeria has been called witchcraft by the majorly Catholic Cuban state, because of it's pagan rites. Huxley portrays a flagellation in front of a cross, as a pagan rite, in Brave New World. Thereby showing us how our believes will one day too, melt into pure myth.