Mythogenesis

Abstract

The phenomena of myth and mythogenesis (the process of myth creation) have been a perennial moot point for humanities, theology, and the social sciences. Why do people demonstrate an inexhaustible capacity to create stories that have little relation to everyday life and conventional physics, stories which feature gods, demigods, demons, and other unreal figures struggling with exceptional and unexceptional human beings over the control of their world, but also assisting them in everyday tasks?