The Story That Becomes the World
“We do not tell the myth. The myth tells us. And in telling, it makes the world.”
📖 Myth is Not a Story—It is a Movement
In a relational ontology, myth is not a fixed tale from the past. It is not a sealed account of gods and heroes, nor a fossilised belief system. Myth is a living process—a dynamic unfolding of meaning. It moves through us, between us, as us. It is how the world becomes symbolically inhabitable.
To say “myth is movement” is to say: it is not a record of the world—it is the way the world is made meaningful. Myth is not the story we tell about the world. It is the relational act of telling through which the world emerges as a place of significance.
🌍 Worldmaking through Meaning
We do not enter a neutral reality. We enter a storied cosmos. The myth is already unfolding in our words, our rituals, our relationships. Through myth, we transform space into place, matter into meaning, noise into voice. Myth makes the world not just knowable, but liveable.
Myth does not describe a pre-existing world. It co-creates a world through the patterned interplay of symbol, body, and consciousness. It is not what we look at—it is what we look through. Myth is the sacred lens through which being becomes meaningful. It is not truth in opposition to fact—it is truth as relational coherence.
🔄 The Recursive Nature of Myth
Myth doesn’t simply unfold linearly. Like time itself, myth is recursive. Each retelling folds the past into the present, and the present into the future. Every telling reweaves the pattern. This is how myth evolves: it does not break with the past, but returns to it differently, drawing out new potential.
A myth is not fixed content—it is a movement of relation, adapting to new contexts and unfolding deeper resonances. It grows, not by abandoning its core, but by symbolising it anew. This is why myth can never be exhausted: it is a living pattern of becoming, rather than a static script.
✨ Myth as the Sacred Act of Relation
In relational ontology, myth is not a human invention. It is how the sacred becomes actual in and through relation. It is the symbolic mode of divine emergence—not imposed from without, but flowering from within.
Myth is how the divine expresses itself within time—through gesture, word, form, and ritual. It is the language of a becoming cosmos, the medium through which the infinite takes on form, and form reveals the infinite.
This is why myths are not “believed” or “disbelieved.” They are inhabited. They are acts of symbolic participation. A myth is true not because it happened, but because it happens again and again in us and through us. It shapes what it means to be alive.
🌱 To Myth is to Become
Myth is not passive. It is an active verb. To myth is to participate in the ongoing weaving of meaning. To myth is to shape the world through story, ritual, and symbol. It is a creative act—not just of the imagination, but of existence.
To live mythopoetically is to become world—to enter into the sacred movement of meaning-making, where every act, every utterance, every encounter is a chance for the divine to know itself anew.
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