Joshua Frydman

“Mythology is never static, but it can often appear so in hindsight. Most of the famous mythologies of the world -such as Egyptian, Greco-Roman or Norse -belong to societies that either no longer exist or no longer practice the religions that were associated with those mythologies. We see these older mythologies as if they were frozen in time, when in reality they are sets of stories that may have been told at wildly different times with varying images of the same gods and heroes. In the case of Japan, however, the religions associated with the myths are still practised; their gods are still worshipped and their heroes are still relevant.”
― Joshua Frydman, The Japanese Myths: A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits