Danish author Karen Blixen writes: "Stories have been told as long as language has existed, and without stories the human race would have perished, just as it would have perished without water."
Psychologist Jerome Bruner writes: "In human beings, with their astonishing narrative gift, one of the principal forms of peacekeeping is the human gift for presenting, dramatizing, and explicating the mitigating circumstances surrounding conflict-threatening breaches in the ordinariness of life."
Stories act as a social glue. When stories are repeated often and take the form of myths, they act as cultural carriers. All cultures have myths about how the universe was created and who has power over natural phenomena.
The function of myths is to be carriers of shared knowledge. They are an excellent way to preserve the hard-earned experiences of others. Their narrative form makes them easy to remember, which increases their transferability.
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