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Why Do We Use Myths to Communicate Forbidden Knowledge?

Because for some reason it is too hard to speak literally and directly about the thing in question. I will use a myth to speak about a truth, which cannot be told in any other way. I call this 'signalling'. I will be talking about a truth using this signal because all other ways of discussing it are either unknown, forbidden already or dangerous for me.

What reasons might cause me to signal these truths via a myth?

  1. There is no language yet available, maybe never will be available, to describe something deep we all know by intuition is happening.
  2. It is self-indicting. That is, by speaking about this thing directly and literally makes me complicit in a moral wrong in the activity itself. If I use a myth to speak about it, I can carry on doing it but in the hope of remaining unconscious of my actions. This is not hypocrisy as so many who lack compassion try to say. It is tribal epistemology - 'truth' according to my tribe only. A very powerful force indeed. To break free into reality one has to betray ones tribe. 
  3. It is dangerous That is, the rest of the tribe or society has already forbidden its proper scrutiny. Anyone who tries to bring it into the light will be sent into exile, which is often a virtual death sentence. Again, this is not hypocrisy. It is epistemic. It brings ones faith under serious scrutiny if religious obviously. I can no longer say, "I was only doing as I was told by authority. I am the hand not the brain'.
  4. It means 'death'. If I want to look at something directly for what it really is, in and of itself, that means I have to start looking at what's happening in front of my face, maybe for the first time in my life. That is, the set of beliefs which comprise my world, I suddenly recognise as just that - beliefs. Stories, illusions, fantasies, ideas, theories. Thought creates an image of the world. Then thought worships the image it just created. Given these things are the entirety of my old world, and I worship them, accepting that is **all** they are means I must die, to my old self, and be reborn into reality, as 'a new man', set free from these false images. Obviously this is the hardest one a myth rescues me from. I might prefer to die literally before I give up my beliefs.
And so it goes...

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