When we hear the word “myth,” what’s the first thing to come to mind? For some, we think of it as a belief held by people, but not able to be scientifically proven or disproven. There are, however, those who imagine mystifying creatures.
Ever wonder what some of our most revered Professors and Teachers think of such cryptids? Lakota West Counselor Mr. Rubin described his thoughts on Mythology after receiving a brief rundown on what it all entails.
“I would need definitive proof that… Bigfoot exists, if I had definitive proof then I would y’know I would consider it but that’s probably true for any kind of myth or legend,… I feel like I would need irrefutable scientific proof that it occurred because I think the problem nowadays with video is that anyone can doctor a video or create fake pictures. here’s a lot of fake untested information out there, so I would wanna lean on science.”
Lakota West staff member Mr. Larimer also expressed his thoughts on Mythology.
“For myths, I think of a story primarily made up to explain something that we didn’t understand. Now, mythological, that’s different; I think of the Greek and Roman gods and the world that the ancients lived in.”
“I think that the myth, or the mythos of bigfoot or mothman is starting to develop. There’s not much difference between the story of Mothman and the story of the minotaur, other than the Mothman story is much more recent.”
Lakota West staff member Mr. Fingerle, who has extensive knowledge of mythology, expressed his thoughts as well.
“A lot of Hercules myths began as a sort of like, ‘Hey, did you hear about that one time that Hercules did this one thing? And then this happened.’ So, we get the Milky Way because of something that makes no sense within the broader modern conception of Hercules, but it was a story told at the time… and it caught on and it spread, and 100-200 years later someone started writing these down and they took everything. Some of it didn’t quite fit, which you can find with Robinhood, King Arthur, and any popular story… is there truth behind it? I think there is always significance behind it, I don’t know if I would say truth but we tell these stories for a reason and sometimes it’s to have a laugh.”
