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About twenty years had to go by before people could forget how ugly the Revolutionary War was

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About twenty years had to go by before people could forget how ugly the Revolutionary War was

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 In actual practice, anthropological evidence suggests that most early cultures believed in some kind of female fertility power or beings.  Much of the evidence we have for this exists in the form of cave drawings and of small stone sculptures fashioned in the shape of females. 

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 In actual practice, anthropological evidence suggests that most early cultures believed in some kind of female fertility power or beings.  Much of the evidence we have for this exists in the form of cave drawings and of small stone sculptures fashioned in the shape of females. 

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Most of these mythic creatures' nature and appearance were affected to some extent by changing social, moral, and religious codes: it is said, for example, that the Inquisition--the period of time during which the Roman Catholic Church attempted violent means to stamp out paganism, witchcraft, and devil worship--was itself the most powerful creator of a modern mythological system of witches, warlocks, their elemental animal spirit assistants such as black cats and crows, and the entire regalia of witchcraft myth that we find in works such as the Harry Potter novels and C.S. Lewis' Narnia series.   

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Most of these mythic creatures' nature and appearance were affected to some extent by changing social, moral, and religious codes: it is said, for example, that the Inquisition--the period of time during which the Roman Catholic Church attempted violent means to stamp out paganism, witchcraft, and devil worship--was itself the most powerful creator of a modern mythological system of witches, warlocks, their elemental animal spirit assistants such as black cats and crows, and the entire regalia of witchcraft myth that we find in works such as the Harry Potter novels and C.S. Lewis' Narnia series.   

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culture sufficiently developed to pass these stories down from generation to generation.  Such a culture must have had a well developed sense of language, of symbolic meaning, and of the importance of developing a stable, functional society

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culture sufficiently developed to pass these stories down from generation to generation.  Such a culture must have had a well developed sense of language, of symbolic meaning, and of the importance of developing a stable, functional society

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Campbell's theory is similar to the belief by some linguists that almost all languages throughout the world are based on a single ancient language called "proto-Indo-European

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The most important contemporary commentator on myth is Joseph Campbell.

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However we choose to understand mythology, it is clear that the tracks it leaves through time--both historically and in the present--help us interpret the nature of culture, society, and what it means to be human.

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Just as computer simulations can help us get to grips with complex problems such as flying a plane or forecasting the weather, so novels, stories and dramas can help us understand the complexities of social life.”

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The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated.

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The Titans were an early race of gods about which the Greeks seemed to know little or have little to say, except that they were very powerful and gave birth to the normal Greek gods of which we know more.

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The Titans were an early race of gods about which the Greeks seemed to know little or have little to say, except that they were very powerful and gave birth to the normal Greek gods of which we know more.

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Stories, this research is showing, stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life.

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Good stories are startling.

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We have to invent very natural unnatural situations—classrooms where everyone faces front, usually under the threat of more or less brutal discipline—to get people to use language for learning outside the gossip-context.

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the studies show that therefore people who read a lot of novels have better social and empathetic abilities, are more skillful navigators, than those who don’t.

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Everything—faith, science, love—needs a story for people to find it plausible.