Mythopoeia

The world lacks a centralized mythology. Modern life is boring as fuck. We aren't charging into Troy, or fighting Hitler's soldiers, or bombing the shit out of 'Nam. Those things are far too different and uncomfortable to the ideal modern man: a mindless slave, working and slaving away to a paycheck where his office is a second home to him. And he never travels anywhere. The solution? Invent your own mythology. Mythopoeia is when a bunch of bored as fuck people decide to try and give writing mythology a crack at it. Mostly with a barely functioning typewriter and piss-old tape. It usually starts with an idea for a few tales: "Hey," the writer thinks, "wouldn't it be cool if I wrote a brief history of how one city-state fell?" But then it usually becomes "how did the city-state originate?" which transforms into "how did the people that founded the city-state?" which becomes "where did the people come from?" until they have eventually written an entire history to explain how the city-state originated.

Practically all the world's mythologies started as personal projects before they spread unintentionally and people decided to expand to it. Greeks, Jews, That guy that lives down the street. All world mythologies started as personal projects.