ECHOES THROUGH TIME OF MYTH AND METAPHOR
Channel: European Association of Archaeologists
Date: 2020-09-29

The mundane and transcendental manifest in transformations over time/space in various and diverse cultural advents in our struggle to explain our “beingness”. Our philosophies did not come to us only when we became literate. Archeologists know this as we have recovered (uncovered) material culture that was the voice of the teacher of all in the oral tradition past. The literate (essentially the word made manifest in a material form) and the hardware indicate thought and the capacity to make thought evident and transgenerational beyond the voice of the elders with their teaching through presence. And so, from the depths of time, oral traditions gifted us a compilation of our evolving consciousness and it is through this we came to deliberate on our existence and the worlds we confront – both physical and metaphysical. The oral world was and remains stable and yet easily mutated – a seeming contradiction, yet not unexpected in a dynamic representation of ourselves through myth and metaphor. Myth and metaphor, yet and again, has become a specific study with well-structured theory and methodology and extended academic discussions. Thus, it provides insight into the

cultures of deep time as well as a commentary on our transgenerational concerns.


Author(s): Dods, Roberta Robin (The University of British Columbia)