Why do People write myths?

For entertainment, for knowledge, for joy and fun, as learning mediums, as a way to pass on knowledge or ideas from one generation to another. A way to portray hope, as an excuse for desire and carnal thoughts. Myths are the beginning’s of humanities attempts at gaining godhood by creation of something of their own. The essential beginning of all stories. During man’s change from ape to human there was the myth and the myth said let there be stories and books and things that entertain us for in the long dark night before the myths all humanity did was sit beside the fire huddled together against the cold and storm and wait to be eaten by a lion, a bear, bitten by a snake or spider.

Then one day by that fire someone said, Bob’s dad knew where all the snakes and spiders were, he would kill them before they even got into the cave. He stepped outside even in the darkest of nights and howled back at the thunder. Another, carried away with the thought and Idea then said, no snakes here when Bob was still alive, no spiders and we killed a mammoth. We ate well for months.

Three generations later in the same cave “Bobade” had become a myth that banished spiders and snakes and killed mammoths. But the point is Spiders and snakes could be held at bay and Mammoths killed for food. These are all important learning traits for early man. Myths even now tell and educate.