Hypertext

Dr. Sexson constantly stresses the issue of hypertext when talking about the e-journals. The ability to smoothly slide from one idea to a related idea is what makes the inernet such a powerful technology (and also, interestingly enough, is what makes it much like the oral traditions of the past, but that is something for another journal).

If I so chose, I could create links throughout this entry, sending you everywhich way. The above links, however, have nothing to do with anything, and were more random than anything else.

Some sites, however, are founded deeply in the hypertext reality, and none more so than Wikipedia. If you click the previous hypertext, you will be linked to a site with over a hundred and fifty links to other myth related sites. I could spend hours and not provide so rich a resource.

(For you Shakespeare people tired of reading about myth, click here, while those who are willing to accept myth as a vaiable part of Shakespear {and vice-versa}, click here.)

And how does this relate to mythology? Well, beyond the oral tradition -- mythology connection, we can look at the mythology as a collection of linked stories, a unified mythos. We talk about Zeus and we 'hypertext' to Leda and then 'hypertext' to Helen, then to Troy, then to Odysseus, then to Ποσειδῶν, then back to Zeus.

I am personnaly a big fan of Greek.

ὲν τούτῳ γνώσονται πάντες ὅτι ήν είσί

Extra bonus points for anyone who bothers to translate, though be warned, it is in Koine Greek, so most modern dictionaries won't help you any. Even here, the most abusrd and odd things can come forth as a quest. It may not be great, but the one who succeeds will have a certain distinction over all others who choose to be nothing but ordinary.

And yes, the quote is related to myth and this post.