Gender-Content Myths and their Role in Nation Forming

Abstract

All advanced thinking is immersed and grows from mythical soil, since myth and legendary stories in many respects proceed intuitive as well as discursive reasoning (Armstrong, 2005/2006; Kolakowski, 1989). Establishing history — for example, assessing a sequence of past events to be of a certain value or importance in order to understand and interpret present times — also includes myth-making as an element in the process of social memory, resulting in collectively organized and approved knowledge (Szacka, 2006; Wilshire, 1992).