Myths & Stories
Feeding From the Fire Below by Kate Walters (|Issue 6)
What kinds of stories can help us find our bearings in times of loss and disorientation? Dark Mountain began with the claim that the roots of today’s crises lie in the stories we have been telling ourselves, but out of this grows the hope that the telling of stories might also have a part to play in how we find ways through.
Among the crew that gathers around this project, you’ll find novelists, mythographers, playwrights, anthropologists and campfire storytellers. One of the things we share is a sense that stories are more than entertainment, that they are how humans make sense of the world, maybe even that the world itself is made of stories.
Beyond Omega
Brian George
29th December, 2021
A short winter's tale at the end of a long year, with words and image by Brian George
The Migration of Memory
Rohini Walker
17th November, 2021
Rohini Walker interprets the myth and meaning of 'the crone' – through a retelling of three encounters that take us from Kolkata's suburbs, down into the London Underground and out into California's starry desert night.
Tales from the Bardo
Brian George
8th July, 2020
Two short works of fiction by writer and artist, Brian George, reflecting uncertain times and the prophetic stones that hold messages for the future.
Outbreak
Charlotte Du Cann
18th March, 2020
As human societies find themselves gripped in the claws of a pandemic, Charlotte Du Cann explores a myth of regeneration that might make sense of our predicament.
In Search of a Lexicon for the Deep Core
Charlotte Du Cann
13th February, 2019
Charlotte Du Cann writes of the Underworld, mythos and Deep Adaptation
The Magic of the Gap
Francesca Schmidt
31st January, 2019
Francesca Schmidt reflects on winter traditions, and the significance of ritual, from the Czech-German borderlands.
The Centrifugal Displacement of the Tribe
Brian George
17th September, 2018
Brian George on ancestors, the oral tradition and the displacing effects of migration.
