Traditional Wisdom and Knowledge Today Our traditional elders cleverly disguised information in the mythologies that they have passed down to us through the ages. This presentation will show how to read mythologies, and will discuss the importance of understanding them. Participants will be asked to help interpret the symbols in the stories, bringing credibility to the information, and showing that interpreting symbols is remarkably simple and the information is relevant to the people of today. The video "The Box of Daylight" will be shown, and the stories "Woman Marrying the Bear" and "How the Loon Got Its Necklace" will be discussed.