HeyJaredThe Myth Lab
An NYC-based community think tank that gathers artists, scholars, and writers to cross-pollinate, create, and disseminate the new and renewed myths our world needs.
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Earth Grief (opens the original)
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As late summer shades into autumn, the light grows strong and sharp. It’s a time of cooling nights and stirring winds, of harvest and discernment. It’s the new moon nearest the equinox and, at dusk tonight, the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, holiday of apples and honey, reflection, renewal, and gathering, before the purification and shedding of Yom Kippur. As we step across this seasonal threshold, we’re delighted to feature “Earth Grief,” a deep, important, and moving essay by eco
Myths of the Ocean Mother (opens the original)
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How do we create new myths? One starting place is by getting to know ancient stories and identifying which symbols and figures we want to retrieve and reimagine and which we’d like to change, complicate, or demolish full score. This week, as we step into September, we’re sharing a longer post than usual, adapted from a lecture that writer, scholar, and storyteller Ingrid Norton gave at the International Society of Mythology this past May about ancient stories of an oceanic goddess that can inspi
Beyond the Silent Spring (opens the original)
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Our latest myth, by musician and philosopher David Rothenberg, tells the story of how birds broke their silence and began to sing to one another. This is an exuberant story, in which fear of being preyed on gives way to the splendor of communication, song, and collaboration—a story of birds down the evolutionary branch that’s relevant today. Anytime we come together to make music and make myths we choose expressiveness over fear. David will be performing in Manhattan tonight with Jim Nollman at
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