Bipolar

I believe in the darkness, it’s just a sound
I’m in love with some sadness, it’s just a sound
Amnesia

Thus myth and ritual mutually explain and confirm each other.
The Golden Bough

Mythology is History; expressed by, originating with, and viewed from the perspective of, the right-hemisphere which is at once creative, intuitive, artistic and feminine, of the human-animal brain system.

History, therefore, is Mythology; expressed by, originating with, and viewed from the perspective of, the left-hemisphere which is necessarily and naturally destructive, statistical, categorized and masculine, of the human-animal brain system.

We now know that the two halves of the brain do speak different languages…The right brain is the first to develop in the womb…The left and right sides of the brain also process the imprints of the past in dramatically different ways. The left brain remembers facts, statistics, and the vocabulary of events. We call on it to explain our experiences and put them in order. The right brain stores memories of sound, touch, smell, and the emotions they evoke.
B. Van Der Kolk, M. D.

Mythology and History each independently portray only a half, dim perception of life.

When you refuse each individually, and accept both collectively, resting upon the foundation of a mighty bridge which spans the darkened abyssal gap between them, balancing and tying together the two perceived sides of the rotating coin that is your mind…you then see unfolding before the awareness that you have always been, the only true and whole story of this our… Reality.

Our practical conception of reality would therefore seem to be in need of revision…for there is something really not quite right about the way we look at the world.
C.G. Jung

Ceremonies often die out while myths survive, and thus we are left to infer the dead ceremony from the living myth. If myths are, in a sense, the reflections or shadows of men cast upon the clouds, we may say that these reflections continue to be visible in the sky and to inform us of the doings of the men who cast them, long after the men themselves are not only beyond our range of vision but sunk beneath the horizon.
The Golden Bough

Historians have found these references again and again, but evidently consigned them to the mythology of the times.
Journeys Out Of The Body