### L838 mythmaking as a navigational tool > All these myths colored the seascape and gave it meaning. It became something alive and familiar. Individual rocks acquired distinctive personalities. Legendary tales brought alive the shorelines fast approaching on the horizon. Mythic names, vivid stories, passed from the old to the young. A legendary hero cast a rock after an escaping canoe; it became a landmark. Two rocks represented a couple turned into stone. The seascape formed a continual story that linked past and present, the hazards and features of ocean waters near and far. This reminds me of my uncle making up bullshit stories to pass the time; that grow in the telling but provide useful frame of reference, because the human brain remembers stories better than it remembers particular shapes and random unconnected facts. This sort of oral storytelling about the landscape system or to have my uncle would call the lighthouse a rocket. - [[Beyond the Blue Horizon by Brian Fagan#L838 mythmaking as a navigational tool|View in Vault]]