The Ballads of Gravity

No one but the king of Atlantis lived there. The king ruled over the land of gods and muses. The residents of the land were fantasies and memories. The apparitions of them floated over the land.  Two cities, Holy and  Wrath, were seen from the temples and palace of Atlantis. The hemisphere around the land was surrounded by the mystic lands of unknown existences. From Atlantis nothing but the soul sailed forth the cities of mysteries and myths. Each temple in Atlantis represented the mystic lands. Travelers were shown the Chambers by the king from where they witnessed the Might of the land. They stayed in the palace for nine days and left their bodies to the mystic abyss of Atlantis, while the soul sailed to their chosen destinies. Some of them made contracts in the temples of Atlantis with the rulers of mystic lands and they left the land for the fixed time. The king witnessed the choices and destinies of great souls. The great rulers of the mystic lands assigned...

The resettlement of the myth is one of the major characteristics of the post-colonial literatures. The configuration of myth found in the narratives of the state is to encode the resistance to the hegemonic drives. It also emphasizes the evidence of precolonial cultures and methods of organizing. Myth is the belief of a particular culture in relation with its practices and existence. The myth of a particular culture emphasizes its deep rooted beliefs and practices which establishes the culture itself an entity. Analyzing the resettlement of myth in the African literature especially focusing on the works of Achebe, we will find that the myths are not of themselves political; they are in some senses inactive until and unless motivated by the context. As they are always motivated or set in motion by political context, neutral myths do not exist as such except theoretically. The myth is nothing but a concept or belief until and unless it is brought into a particular discourse...