Modern Mythology

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Originally Posted by Dangerious P. Cats

Myth reflect the societies in which they occure. Viking myths reflected Viking values and life styles, as did pretty much every other society. This leads me to wonder what sort of myths, gods, monsters and heros would arrise in modern society (...)

I don't share entirely that definition of myth, but anyway, following your point of view, societies do believe in their "myths" -and this is entirely applicable to the modern globalized society: most people don't recognize the "myths" they are immersed in and instead thinks about them as truths and hard facts. Thus, claiming this or that as a "contemporary 'myth'" could be highly controversial.

This said, I think it doesn't involves real danger to say the Cthulhu Mythos and its variations are, in more than a sense, very reflective of the modern world, since they are openly acknowledged as fiction for most people.