Summary Of The Yami Myth 'The Outbursters'

I spent a while looking at the Yami myth “The Outbursters” and trying to connect this myth to William H. McNeill’s theory of all myth being history. McNeill discussed the idea of “mythistory,” which relates to an account by a person, with events, that is subjective, and is shared by a group of people. I do not see this myth as fitting into this category. This myth is not so much as account by a person. No one person could be around to witness this therefore this story must have come from many different people, with many different accounts and been combined to create this myth. There are subjective events in this story though, so that matches up with McNeill’s theory. This myth is also shared by a group of people, the Yami. After reading this