The mythical landscape
In myth the landscape where the stories takes place has been of interest for me for some time. Where is this place? Is it pure imagination or an actual real place?
I believe that the place itself is based on a real landscape that has gone through a myth creating process. This landscape would have been the local area of the people in any area in the world. So if you’re a sea going people the stories will create themselves around this. The heroes will be swimmers or ocean creatures. Another example could be a bridge in your town that may lead out of the city or a great tree or a large rock. All these are valid examples of what gets magnified in the Mythscape.
The myth-making mind then takes these locations or landmarks and modifies them for the core archetypal stories, which take place in the scape.
So how did I come up with this stuff?
I live on the West Side of Melbourne and since a young age I have imagined, dreamed and thought (not sure which one it is) about a place. This place is similar in all ways to my local area. The homes are all stylised bigger/smaller brighter. Lighting is a constant twilight red/pink sky. What I found was that important location’s to me and many people in the area are magnified to become special zones. These special zones are places that made a difference in my life eg. Primary School a church (which is fading) friends home’s, shops and landmarks. Here my life’s stories take place.
What I want to know is what happens when I leave this place? Will it change will I mythasize the streets, bridges and highways back to my place of childhood.