Something I think that is missed here is that these are not the shapes of our stories, but of our narratives. A story doesn't need to conform to any of these (e.g. if I tell you a story about my day, I'm unlikely to truly conform to any of these), but a narrative absolutely would. If I want to tell you how I've become successful, it's going to take a narrative form, because I have a goal. These are often conflated, but are, in fact, distinct concepts.
Maybe some of the similarity of the Greek, Norse and Indian myths are a common Indo European origin. Is there rally much similarity of the with the Mesopotamian myths?
Don't know enough here, but seems so. Humans made of clay, Ishtar and Aphrodite plus other deities being similar, Odyssey and Gilgamesh, flood myths etc etc..
Something I think that is missed here is that these are not the shapes of our stories, but of our narratives. A story doesn't need to conform to any of these (e.g. if I tell you a story about my day, I'm unlikely to truly conform to any of these), but a narrative absolutely would. If I want to tell you how I've become successful, it's going to take a narrative form, because I have a goal. These are often conflated, but are, in fact, distinct concepts.
This is a really good point!
Maybe some of the similarity of the Greek, Norse and Indian myths are a common Indo European origin. Is there rally much similarity of the with the Mesopotamian myths?
Don't know enough here, but seems so. Humans made of clay, Ishtar and Aphrodite plus other deities being similar, Odyssey and Gilgamesh, flood myths etc etc..