Episode 264: Big Ideas | Myth

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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What do you think of when you hear the word 'myth?' You might use it to describe the opposite of what is real or factual, maybe a widely held but false belief. However, sacred narratives are also called myths—traditional or symbolic stories explaining the origin of the world, natural phenomena, or cultural customs. Most societies have their own creation myths, for instance. Sound familiar...maybe even like scripture? Yet it would be a profound shift for many Latter-day Saints to consider approaching our scriptures through a mythic lens. In Episode 264, Cynthia and Susan discuss some benefits of changing the way we think about scripture and how it can function to teach spiritual truths and deepen understanding of our human experience.

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0:00.0	A myth is like the advice that your elders are giving you around the fire, right?
0:10.3	Myth is a thing that lays out a problem or a life experience for us and then asks us to assign meaning to the parts of it or to decipher how the wisdom of the story might apply to us.
0:22.5	And how do we do that?
0:23.9	Will we do that by looking at our own experience?
0:30.5	Hello, I'm Susan Hinkley.
0:32.8	And I'm Cynthia Winward.
0:34.6	And this is at last she said it.
0:36.3	We are women of faith discussing complicated things.
0:38.7	And the title of today's episode is Big Ideas Myth.
0:45.9	We're going there, Susan.
0:47.7	I know.
0:48.7	I'm so excited for this conversation.
0:52.0	Oh my gosh.
0:52.6	Okay, you're excited and I'm just nervous. Like,
0:55.5	ha, ha, it's going to be great. Nervous laughter, but I can only blame myself because I
1:03.0	started the notes today. So I don't know. And here's why I'm nervous is, I don't know,
1:10.3	like so many topics. How long have we
1:12.6	been wanting to have this conversation? Right. And how many times do we just keep kicking
1:18.5	that can down the road? I mean, and we've danced around it. Like, let's go four years ago
1:25.0	with Kaiser Berlin Kalfusi, episode 84, do I literally have to believe that?
1:30.5	So we have talked about, you know, literal versus metaphorical, but somehow bringing in the word
1:37.2	myth and really dissecting that, I feel like I'm really punching above my weight.
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