Beginnings

All families have their own mythologies, their own beginnings, and their own endings.  Aren't familial myths the stories that are passed down from generation to generation?  My family's myths can be traced from Denmark to the plains of Montana, and if my paternal grandfather is correct, from the Emerald Isle of Ireland--although this is one story that has been disputed and actually could be defined as myth--to the north woods of Minnesota.  From sheep ranchers to big band drummers, my family's mythos is diverse and interesting, and I do not think that all of it is fact.  However, it is a part of who I am, and like Io, I "understand that myth is the precedent behind every action."