The First Stories
Our ancestors, on the other hand, communicated through language and gesture, song and dance. They led rich interior lives, creating ideas, images, and wholly imagined realities that shaped their interior worlds just as deftly as their tools made clothes to keep them warm and huts to shelter them.
Abby Smith Rumsey • When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future
“Then just imagine this Second Awakening being the canvas he used as the background for his Power of the Myth theory. Spoken language emerged during the time of the early shamans, and great myths were told around the campfire. For the first time, early humans became self-aware and while still considering themselves a part of nature they understood
... See moreJeffery A. Martin • The Fourth Awakening
it is not enough for people to know that they should drive on a certain side of the road, they also need to know that others possess that same knowledge. Stories may therefore act to ensure that all members of the group know, and consequently abide by, the “rules of the game” in a given society.