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amythbe?
ClackamasMythologylnstructor
Jan Anderson said the answer is, “a
myth can be as old as language
Excited students watched itself.” This idea becomes especially
|i anticipation in RR 220 last interesting when drawing connec
dnesday, when professional Sto tions between the recurring mystery
ller Will Homyak surprised the of the sacred direction north, in
¡vd: Since today we are looking Indian myths, and their migration
jidian mythology, why don’t we approximately 25 .thousand years
n with a folktale from Japan.”
ago. People like Homyak continue
Homyak is neither Native this tradition today.
ierican, nor Japanese, but he
. At first, it might seem a little out
itinues to remind his audiences of place for a storyteller to be at a
the importance of oral tradition, business conference, the state peni
¡ch is the foundation, or “bones” tentiary, or the American Cancer
e put it, of any culture.
Society, but when one comes to
The last thing to disappear understand myth as Homyak does,
u a culture is their myths,” said it becomes clear.
nyak. “From just a few stories,
Homyak explained that myth
can tell a lot about how people is practical, “always in touch with
what’s timeless in our experience.”
gilt.”
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At a time before television and He continued to explain that there
rtran Idol, people told stories, are no lies or “myths” in myth. ■
course, the most tempting and
“It’s so true it keeps happening
¡■¡table question is, how old can again and again and again,” he said.
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. “Myth comes from the edge of our
experiences, from the highest of the
high, from the lowest of the low;
myth comes from the bizarre.
“This world takes on great
meaning with the spiritual ... the
kind of relationship we have with
the spiritual world is what creates
quality here.”
After telling the story of a “great
swallowing monster,” Homyak
quizzed his audience, asking, “Who
is swallowing monster?”
“There’s no right answer,” he
said. “Swallowing monster could
be the boss you asked for a raise
from last weekend. Swallowing
monster could be alcohol, depres
sion, or the U.S. government, It
could be Wal-Mart; it just wants
more and more.”
‘T could be swallowing mon
ster,” he continued. ‘You got to get
inside, to deal with the beast, and
its dark inside... Most importantly,
swallowing monster will be back.”
Popular card game threatens
the innocence of a nation
By Jeff Sorensen
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Holy crap, there are sòme
twisted people on the Internet
I know a phrase like that
is usually followed with an
mthusiastic “duh,” but I recently
hu n loaded a game on my X-
Box 360 that proved just how
6r some people will go for a
«action. In fact I would go so
br as to say this particular game,
if left to its devices, could single-
iandedly ruin the innocence
if our nation’s children,
A
couple months ago,
licrosoft made an X-Box
ive camera available to the
lasses. “Live” players can
ow see and interact with
ich other for just $39.95 plus
avice fees (yeah ... cameras
are always such a good idea),
Anyway, some online friends
andldownloadedthisgametohelp
us wind down after hours of tense
Rainbow Six online competition,
The game is supposed to be a
vehicle for people to get used to
their spifiy new X-Box cameras,
and serves that function extremely
well. Players can wave to their
friends, flip off their enemies, and
even show off prized possessions
or family members to friends in
different comers of the world in
real-time and with impress« e
picture quality. Within the firstday,
however, I started to hear stories.
One of the guys 1 met online
from Idaho goes by the name
“Toby.” Toby was playing the
game recently, getting a bit
of use out of his camera and
enjoying video feeds from other
players, when a man in a bear
suit logged into, the room. The
man, without removing his suit,
proceeded to pleasure himself
* openly to the horror and disgust
of the other three in tire room.
Then, a few hours later,
Toby, another friend of ours
and myself had a nice, friendly
game going, when a player
logged into our open fourth
spot and flipped on his camera,
Notiiing was visible in the
frame but what looked like a small
bookshelf. Into the frame walked
a robot, which
I immediately
commanded to dance ... and it
did! Then its owner began beating
it with what looked like a broom
handle and the player logged out
At the time of this writing,
I’d had the game less than 48
hours. I’d asked what looked like
a 15-year-old to put her clothes
back on, watched a 13-year-old
cuss out his mother, and asked
a man in a ski mask if he, by
some chance, owned a bear suit.
I used to play “Uno” with
my babysitter when I was five.
I don’t want to play anymore.
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well as in the less likely
places mentioned earlier.
The requirements of
a good storyteller are
numerous; it is not simply
tiie ability to retell infor
mation. Rather, a story
teller is an actor, a phi
losopher, an improviser
and a teacher.
Hornyak
himself
becomes the characters
in his stories by creat
ing imagery and sound
out of tiie empty space
around him, and changing
his voice and posture to
fit the coyote or tiie swal
lowing monster. Comedy
is often entangled within
the stories, and myth can
suddenly surprise tiie
listener
with twists and
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turns, moving quickly
from tragedy to comedy.
These teachings can be seen
A good storyteller must be able
as medicine, which explains why
storytelling has been used to help to “edit” the story to fit the specific
Vietnam veterans, and even prison situation, as mysteries unravel - but
good storytelling also needs a good
inmates recover.
Above all, though, Homyak is audience.
“There was a warrior,” Homyak
an entertainer and a teacher.
After receiving his Bachelor’s began, “and he had a horse. They
Degree in journalism and history galloped across the land” - and
in 1976, . Homyak traveled wide tiie entire room echoed with the
ly across Latin America, work rumbling of feet beating against
ing for the Inter-American Press the floor.
Association. Immersed with the
Homyak explained that there
culture, he grew an interest in local is no such thing as the end in
traditions of poetry, music and folk myth. “What’s going to end?” he
tales. In 1994, he became a full-time asked. “When it’s all over, there’s
professional stoiyteller, and ever always something in placé for a
since has been working at schools, beginning.”
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