The left hemisphere relies on concatenations of serial propositions and the literal aspects of language to make meaning explicit; by contrast, metaphor and narrative are often required to convey the implicit meanings available to the right hemisphere, and in a left-hemisphere-dominated culture, metaphors and narratives are disregarded as myths and fables or, at worst, downright lies. We live in an era where articulating and making explicit are of increasing importance and are treated as a mark of truth, and their inverse treated with increasing suspicion.
The role of myth as comunicating understandings about the world can be ideNtified though the right hemisphere's capacity for metaphor and interconnectivity. Expessing it explicitly requires a reduction in connectivity to achieve higher resolution linguistically.
I.e. Words narrow meaning-infomation in the same way tri-coloured pixels narrow visual information.
e.g. The journey of articulating ethics from enbodied action, through narrative, to explicit legalism and philosphy.
