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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.

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.
Myths & Stories

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.
Myths & StoriesOutbreak

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
Myths & StoriesUncivilised Arts

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.
Myths & Stories

The Centrifugal Displacement of the Tribe

Brian George
17th September, 2018
Brian George on ancestors, the oral tradition and the displacing effects of migration.
Myths & Stories

Excerpts from ‘100 Views of the Drowning World’

Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick
29th March, 2018
Myths & Stories

A Space for Stories

Shiba Desor
29th January, 2018
Myths & Stories

Singing Stories, Telling Tales

Shiba Desor
18th December, 2017
Hirma Devi Sumtiyal, who is known to many in the village Sarmoli in Munsiari as...
Myths & Stories

The Empty Countryside

Sara Hudston
2nd October, 2017
For thousands of years, the English countryside has never been so empty of people and...
Myths & Stories

Bottleneck

Gregory Norminton
26th June, 2017
There is a second jolt. Passengers murmur as the plane lurches through fathoms of air....
Myths & Stories

The Glimpse

Carla Stang
5th April, 2017
Hot and grimy from hard work in the manioc orchard the two sisters trot down...
Myths & StoriesThe Mythos We Live By

I am Taliesin

Sophie McKeand
29th March, 2017
Bum yn lliaws rith kyn bum disgyfrith I was in a multitude of forms before...
Myths & StoriesThe Mythos We Live By

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