"Myths provide seeds of recognition to our collective DNA"
Myths provide humanity with stories that all can understand and relate to. No matter the story as long as it relates to a human experience, all cultures can find something in there that is relevant to their life and culture.
This brings up one of the finest episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Darmok." Written by Joe Menosky and guest starring the late actor Paul Winfield, Darmok follows Captain Picard interacting with Dathon (Winfield), an ambassador of an alien race known as Tamarians. The Tamarians speak only in a metaphorical language, relating events of their legends and history.
Dathon takes Picard to a planet where they face grave dangers and in the end connect and finally understand each other. Picard tells a dying Dathon a simplified story of Gilgamesh, relating the phrase Dathon continued to say (Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra) with Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk.
The statement at the top seems very much to be a theme of the episode, except that this breaks that down and says that all sentient life can find connection through myths, not just humanity.
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