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Artificial Mythologies: A Guide to Cultural Invention by Craig J. Saper
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Artificial Mythologies: A Guide to Cultural Invention by Craig J. Saper
The Artificial Savage: Modern Myths of the Wild Man by Roger Bartra
Artificial mythology
Artificial mythology refers to the mythology specifically created for fantasy or science-fiction books or movie such as The Lord of the Rings, or role playing games, or any mythology that does not exist before the publication or development of such works.
Such fictional worlds are expansive creations with well-ordered histories, geographies, and laws of nature. Some build upon many aspects of the real world, while others are almost entirely invented. An artificial mythology is like an imagined world of any other work of science-fiction or fantasy in basic features shown in a simple narrative, but is identical to a typical mythological system in scope and detail. An artificial mythology can be created entirely by an individual, like the world of Middle-earth, or can be formed as a result of an amalgam of writings, like the Expanded Universe of Star Wars.
The place of artificial mythology in society
Works in artificial mythologies are often treated as normal works of fantasy or science-fiction, but many hardcore fans treat these worlds as real and study languages, histories, and religions depicted in the fiction. The famous student of world mythology, Joseph Campbell, spoke of a Nietzschean world which has today outlived much of the mythology of the past. He claimed that new myths must be created, but believed that present culture is changing too rapidly for society to be completely described by any such mythological framework until a later age. He did, however, use Star Wars as an example of the creation of such "fantasy" worlds by which civilization will one day describe itself. Without relevant mythology, Campbell claimed, society cannot function.
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