Blog #3......Myths

Hello,
We all know that we have spent days trying to come up with a myth that is worth reading. We had to use our imagination to come up with something creative and fun. I really liked this assignment. The major difference that i noticed from creating my myth was the fact that i could create my own reality. One of the best parts is that when it comes to 'creation myths', there are no boundaries. The story could go in any direction, and as long as there is a good resolution, then the myth is valid. I decided to choose a creation myth because it is fun to play with a reality that humans are just content with. The major difference from creating a myth to analyzing or reading one is the ability to implement our own ideals and our fantasies. Also, by writing our myths, we do not have to analyze it from any particular perspective. There are no major reasons as to why we wrote our myths, aside from the fact that we must get a grade. For the professional myth writers, they have a story to tell that would probably resemble something that happened before.
I guess that this activity could be used in my classroom as a creative assignment. I would probably give the students an object/thing and i would ask them to tell me how 'it' was created creativily. Then i would allow them to draw that myth (rather than using a computer). I believe that the students would get an insight into what mythology is, and then i could go ahead and introduce world mythology.