Myths of Creation

Myths of origin are some of the most common archetypes, but many of them have become inadequate as our awareness of the cosmos has grown. Science can offer a new mythology; the images sent by the Hubble Telescope have radically changed our view of the world and our place in it. The scale of what’s captured in those images is so immense that it’s practically impossible to fully comprehend. Most interestingly, though, these images represent a moment from a very distant past. We can see super novas that exploded millions or even billions of years ago. The action of light traveling through the vastness of space becomes frozen, fixed in time in the action of perception.