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1336:, the identification of a narrative as a myth can be highly controversial. Many religious adherents believe that the narratives told in their respective religious traditions are historical without question, and so object to their identification as myths while labelling traditional narratives from other religions as such. Hence, some scholars may label all religious narratives as "myths" for practical reasons, such as to avoid depreciating any one tradition because cultures interpret each other differently relative to one another. Other scholars may abstain from using the term "myth" altogether for purposes of avoiding placing pejorative overtones on sacred narratives.
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and purpose in their existence. Myths put one in touch with sacred realities, the fundamental sources of being, power, and truth. They are seen not only as being the opposite of error but also as being clearly distinguishable from stories told for entertainment and from the workaday, domestic, practical language of a people. They provide answers to the mysteries of being and becoming, mysteries which, as mysteries, are hidden, yet mysteries which are revealed through story and ritual. Myths deal not only with truth but with ultimate truth.
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3481:; who, they say, on coming out from the dark cave in which he had been brought up, was so astonished at the sight of the stars, that he worshipped Hesperus, the Moon, and the Sun successively as they rose. These two stories are good illustrations of the origin of "myths", by means of which, even the most natural sentiment is traced to its cause in the circumstances of fabulous history.
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and myth. Ika Willis identified three models of this: fan fiction as a reclaiming of popular stories from corporations, myth as a means of critiquing or dismantling hegemonic power, and myth as "a commons of story and a universal story world". Willis supports the third model, a universal story world,
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claimed that "the primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind and not a stage in its historical development." Recent scholarship, noting the fundamental lack of evidence for "nature mythology" interpretations among people who actually circulated myths, has likewise abandoned the key ideas of
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Comparative mythology is a systematic comparison of myths from different cultures. It seeks to discover underlying themes that are common to the myths of multiple cultures. In some cases, comparative mythologists use the similarities between separate mythologies to argue that those mythologies have a
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yth today has come to have negative connotations which are the complete opposite of its meaning in a religious context... In a religious context, myths are storied vehicles of supreme truth, the most basic and important truths of all. By them, people regulate and interpret their lives and find worth
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is well-known among cultural study scholars for "reinventing" traditional childhood myths. While few films are as obvious as Disney fairy tales, the plots of many films are based on the rough structure of myths. Mythological archetypes, such as the cautionary tale regarding the abuse of technology,
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Both in 19th-century research, which tended to see existing records of stories and folklore as imperfect fragments of partially lost myths, and in 20th-century structuralist work, which sought to identify underlying patterns and structures in often diverse versions of a given myth, there had been a
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tended instead to argue that each account of a given myth has its own cultural significance and meaning, and argued that rather than representing degradation from a once more perfect form, myths are inherently plastic and variable. There is, consequently, no such thing as the 'original version' or
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approaches to myth increasingly treated myth as a form of narrative that can be studied, interpreted, and analyzed like ideology, history, and culture. In other words, myth is a form of understanding and telling stories that are connected to power, political structures, and political and economic
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argued that one of the foremost functions of myth is to establish models for behavior and that myths may provide a religious experience. By telling or reenacting myths, members of traditional societies detach themselves from the present, returning to the mythical age, thereby coming closer to the
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Professor Losada offers his own methodologic, hermeneutic and epistemological approach to myth. While assuming mythopoetical perspectives, Losada's
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controlling nature, thus giving rise to religious myths. Meanwhile, humans continue practicing formerly magical rituals through force of habit, reinterpreting them as reenactments of mythical events. Finally, humans come to realize nature follows natural laws, and they discover their true nature
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of objects and forces. According to these thinkers, the ancients worshiped natural phenomena, such as fire and air, gradually deifying them. For example, according to this theory, ancients tended to view things as gods, not as mere objects. Thus, they described natural events as acts of personal
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supported an allegorical theory of myth. He believed myths began as allegorical descriptions of nature and gradually came to be interpreted literally. For example, a poetic description of the sea as "raging" was eventually taken literally and the sea was then thought of as a raging god.
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are sometimes distinguished from myths in that they concern humans rather than gods, and sometimes in that they have some sort of historical basis whereas myths do not; but these distinctions are difficult to maintain consistently. The term was originally applied to accounts of saints'
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According to Tylor, human thought evolved through stages, starting with mythological ideas and gradually progressing to scientific ideas. MĂŒller also saw myth as originating from language, even calling myth a "disease of language". He speculated that myths arose due to the lack of
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One theory claims that myths are distorted accounts of historical events. According to this theory, storytellers repeatedly elaborate upon historical accounts until the figures in those accounts gain the status of gods. For example, the myth of the wind-god
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asserted that, in some cases, a society reenacts a myth in an attempt to reproduce the conditions of the mythical age. For example, it might reenact the healing performed by a god at the beginning of time in order to heal someone in the present. Similarly,
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through science. Here again, science makes myth obsolete as humans progress "from magic through religion to science." Segal asserted that by pitting mythical thought against modern scientific thought, such theories imply modern humans must abandon myth.
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of Ăschylus: An Essay, preparatory to a series of disquisitions respecting the
Egyptian, in connection with the sacerdotal, theology, and in contrast with the mysteries of ancient Greece." Royal Society of Literature (London), 18 May 1825. Reprinted in
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argued that modern culture explores religious experience. Since it is not the job of science to define human morality, a religious experience is an attempt to connect with a perceived moral past, which is in contrast with the technological present.
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English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers to which are Prefixed a History of the Language and an English
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sense as a "plot point" or to a body of interconnected myths or stories, especially those belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition. It is sometimes used specifically for modern, fictional mythologies, such as the
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that play a fundamental role in a society. For scholars, this is very different from the vernacular usage of the term "myth" that refers to a belief that is not true. Instead, the veracity of a myth is not a defining criterion.
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than gods, and sometimes in that they have some sort of historical basis whereas myths do not; but these distinctions are difficult to maintain consistently. The term was originally applied to accounts of saints' lives..
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A story or group of stories handed down through popular oral tradition, usually consisting of an exaggerated or unreliable account of some actually or possibly historical personâoften a saint, monarch, or popular hero.
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Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Shakespeare, with an introductory matter on poetry, the drama, and the stage. Notes on Ben Jonson; Beaumont and Fletcher; On the Prometheus of Ăschylus [and
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Latinitate donatum ab Abrahamo Ecchellensi Syro Maronita e Libano, linguarum Syriacae, ... cui accessit eiusdem Supplementum historiae orientalis (The Oriental Chronicles
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in ways comparable to species. In general, 19th-century theories framed myth as a failed or obsolete mode of thought, often by interpreting myth as the primitive counterpart of modern science within a
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tendency to synthesise sources to attempt to reconstruct what scholars supposed to be more perfect or underlying forms of myths. From the late 20th century, researchers influenced by
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figures. Others include humans, animals, or combinations in their classification of myth. Stories of everyday humans, although often of leaders of some type, are usually contained in
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Deretic, Irina. âWhy are myths true: Plato on the veracity of myths.â Vestnik of Saint
Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies (2020): vol. 36, issue 3, pp. 441â451.
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Although myth was traditionally transmitted through the oral tradition on a small scale, the film industry has enabled filmmakers to transmit myths to large audiences via film. In
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The word 'myth' is popularly understood to mean idle fancy, fiction, or falsehood; but there is another meaning of the word in academic discourse... Using the original Greek term
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According to the myth-ritual theory, myth is tied to ritual. In its most extreme form, this theory claims myths arose to explain rituals. This claim was first put forward by
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stated that fanfiction 'is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.'
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likewise tried to understand the psychology behind world myths. Jung asserted that all humans share certain innate unconscious psychological forces, which he called
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The compilation or description of myths is sometimes known as "mythography", a term also used for a scholarly anthology of myths or of the study of myths generally.
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research how myth has worked itself into modern discourses. Mythological discourse can reach greater audiences than ever before via digital media. Various
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Frazer saw myths as a misinterpretation of magical rituals, which were themselves based on a mistaken idea of natural law. This idea was central to the "
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The basis of modern visual storytelling is rooted in the mythological tradition. Many contemporary films rely on ancient myths to construct narratives.
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battles between gods and creation stories, are often the subject of major film productions. These films are often created under the guise of
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Losada, José Manuel (2014). "Myth and Extraordinary Event".
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5757:The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine
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4880:Music, Myth and Nature, or The Dolphins of Arion
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3683:International Journal of Language and Literature
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5979:The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
5898:. Translated by Mairet, Philip. Harvill Press.
5776:. University of Virginia Press. pp. 147â.
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4358:. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 31 May 2020.
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1943:divided myths into five categories:
918:Odysseus Overcome by Demodocus' Song
6303:. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5401:
5093:. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4883:. Taylor & Francis. p. 8.
4838:
4819:, edited by T. Shippey. Tempe, AZ:
3593:
3102:"...I was ravisched in-to paradys.
2960:. 2020. Retrieved 21 May 2020. § 2.
2797:. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2718:List of mythology books and sources
13:
6135:"The History of Mythology: Part I"
6077:. University of California Press.
5052:, edited by P. Richman. Berkeley:
3509:Doniger O'Flaherty, Wendy (1975).
3377:ÏΔÏ᜶ ÎłÎ”ÎœÎÏΔÏÏ ÏοῊ ÎœÎżáżŠ áŒÎœ áŒÎœÎžÏÏÏÎżáżÏ
3344:Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "On the
2935:
2131:and epitomised by the research of
1800:
1670:
1175:offers a widely-cited definition:
1150:Ballads of bravery (1877) part of
14:
6802:
6373:
6336:Slattery, Dennis Patrick (2015).
5563:University of Massachusetts Press
5417:Transformative Works and Cultures
5374:Mead, Rebecca (22 October 2014).
2357:structuralist theory of mythology
1891:
1501:
897:were established and sanctified.
6301:A Dictionary of English Folklore
6220:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2006.00018.x
6177:Indian Folklore Research Journal
5993:. Translated by Marier, Thomas.
5990:Greek Mythology: An Introduction
5445:
5367:
5340:
5323:
5308:
5286:
5269:
5252:
5235:
5218:
5173:
5156:
5138:
5121:
5104:
5072:
5035:
5018:
4986:
4969:
4948:
4897:
4877:MĂąche, Francois-Bernard (1992).
4870:
3606:. Rowman Altamira. p. 120.
3351:Coleridge, Henry Nelson (1836).
2795:A Dictionary of English Folklore
2692:
1690:
1339:
6275:Myth: A Very Short Introduction
6188:Meletinsky, Eleazar M. (2014).
6092:Koven, Mikel J. (22 May 2003).
6071:Kirk, Geoffrey Stephen (1973).
6043:. Westminster John Knox Press.
5958:. University of Chicago Press.
5150:Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
4794:
4764:
4739:
4726:
4695:
4566:
4498:
4470:
4361:
4342:
4262:
4243:Horton, Katie (3 August 2015).
4236:
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3095:
3056:
3008:. Ohio State University Press.
2995:
2887:
2881:
2876:A dictionary of creation myths.
2652:Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2482:
2272:
2086:
2059:relates the second half of the
1659:, 'I make myth') was termed by
1211:, "A myth can be defined as an
920:, by Francesco Hayez, 1813â1815
6722:Motif-Index of Folk-Literature
6340:. Carpinteria: Mandorla Books.
6133:Leonard, Scott (August 2007).
5995:Johns Hopkins University Press
5808:University of California Press
5739:. Greenwood Publishing Group.
5452:Harmon, Amy (18 August 1997).
5054:University of California Press
5032:1, edited by T. PĂ roli). Rome.
3358:. W. Pickering. pp. 335â.
2878:Oxford University Press, 1994.
2868:
2835:
2741:
2460:The Myth of the Eternal Return
2442:as myths; theologians such as
1408:
1305:the knights of the Round Table
1141:
1:
6234:Olson, Eric L. (3 May 2011).
5411:Willis, Ika (15 March 2016).
4505:Shaikh, Jamal (8 July 2018).
2380:
2171:traditional African religions
2117:, Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1866)
2073:mythology revived during the
1884:, the Soviet school, and the
1762:
1721:
1633:
1049:
16:Type of traditional narrative
6278:. OUP Oxford. pp. 19â.
6154:Littleton, C. Scott (1973).
6098:Journal of American Folklore
5827:The Problem of Defining Myth
5527:Anderson, Albert A. (2004),
4477:Sinha, Namya (4 July 2016).
3656:Losada, José Manuel (2022).
3600:Winzeler, Robert L. (2008).
3417:Letters Concerning Mythology
3409:Translated in paraphrase in
3078:Reprinted in Henry Bergen's
2713:List of mythological objects
2540:
2339:The Interpretation of Dreams
1819:
1816:gods, giving rise to myths.
1792:romantic desire, and so on.
1477:attributed to the Icelander
1427:Fabius Planciades Fulgentius
1368:Opening lines of one of the
1344:
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6060:Journal of Media Psychology
5872:University of Chicago Press
5754:Downing, Christine (1996).
5652:. Oxford University Press.
5637:. University of California.
5376:"The Percy Jackson Problem"
5333:Journal of Media Psychology
5293:Ostenson, Jonathan (2013).
5188:, Brill, pp. 285â350,
5116:The Uses of Greek Mythology
4981:University Press of America
4283:10.1080/0143830042000200364
4087:Browning, W. R. F. (2010).
4058:Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
3157:Online Etymology Dictionary
3005:Fulgentius the Mythographer
2685:
2628:21st-century films such as
2456:Myths, Dreams and Mysteries
2430:The 20th century saw rapid
1848:Academic discipline history
1771:
924:The word "myth" comes from
10:
6807:
6716:AarneâThompsonâUther Index
6711:Morphology (folkloristics)
6355:Cambridge University Press
6321:. MIT Press. pp. 1â.
5483:
5319:. MIT Press. pp. 3â6.
4997:Jesus Christ and Mythology
4747:Commentary on the Republic
4702:Lanoue, Guy. Foreword. In
4069:Winzeler, Robert L. 2012.
3801:Springfield, Massachusetts
3411:Blackwell, Thomas (1748).
3229:W. Strahan (London), 1755.
2106:19th-century epic poetry,
1823:
1804:
1788:represents wise judgment,
1731:
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1679:
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1359:Mythology (disambiguation)
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1118:Protagonists and structure
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6609:
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6484:
6426:
6299:, eds. 2003. "Myths." In
6012:Humphrey, Sheryl (2012).
5733:Doty, William G. (2004).
5718:. Penguin Books Limited.
5258:Zgoll, Christian (2019).
5241:Zgoll, Christian (2019).
5224:Zgoll, Christian (2019).
5195:10.1163/9789004539761_013
5162:Zgoll, Christian (2019).
5127:Zgoll, Christian (2019).
5078:Ramanujan, A. K. 2004. "
4975:Birenbaum, Harvey. 1988.
4375:Tolkien, J. R. R. 2001.
4249:Colorado State University
4027:Howells, Richard (1999).
3050:Oxford English Dictionary
2981:Oxford English Dictionary
2925:Oxford English Dictionary
2793:, eds. 2003. "Myths." In
2571:Scholars in the field of
2469:The Christian theologian
2386:â1980s), the predominant
2255:
2195:
2127:culture, associated with
1595:
1490:Colorado State University
6211:Religious Studies Review
6194:. Taylor & Francis.
5974:Frazer, Sir James George
5676:. Kessinger Publishing.
5513:7 September 2008 at the
4916:Indiana University Press
4759:Select Works of Porphyry
4383:11 December 2022 at the
4075:Rowman & Littlefield
3469:"According to the rabbi
3143:Harper, Douglas. 2020. "
2734:
1953:physical (or concerning
1747:(fifth-century BCE) and
1207:and classic philologist
885:explain how a society's
861:consisting primarily of
6791:Greek words and phrases
6315:Singer, Irving (2010).
6035:Hyers, Conradl (1984).
5862:Lincoln, Bruce (1999).
5712:Doniger, Wendy (2004).
5629:Bascom, William Russell
5520:EncyclopĂŠdia Britannica
5347:Koven, Michael (2003).
5315:Singer, Irving (2008).
5275:Reinhardt, Udo (2022).
5080:Three Hundred RÄmÄyaáčas
4847:McKinnell, John. 2005.
4030:The Myth of the Titanic
4007:EncyclopĂŠdia Britannica
3903:Baldick, Chris (2015).
3828:A Companion to Folklore
3544:Baldick, Chris (2015).
3515:. Penguin. p. 19.
3113:god , diuers of liknes,
2990:Oxford University Press
2958:Oxford University Press
2899:Encyclopedia Britannica
2603:The Walt Disney Company
2499:Three Hundred Ramayanas
1602:Mythos (disambiguation)
1522:Cultural myth criticism
1444:the anonymous medieval
1163:
1033:
993:was then borrowed into
6272:Segal, Robert (2015).
5523:. 2009. 21 March 2009.
5498:. 2018. Archived from
5085:5 October 2018 at the
4776:The Walters Art Museum
4322:Nuevas formas del mito
4233:, 2 vols. Gainesville.
4138:David Leeming (2005).
3434:Upham, Edward (1829).
2568:
2535:Tractatus mythologicus
2516:hylistic myth research
2480:
2321:
2240:in ancient languages.
2182:Indo-European language
2119:
2066:
2057:Bartolomeo di Giovanni
1926:
1911:
1886:Myth and Ritual School
1654:
1648:
1593:
1485:from the Middle Ages.
1439:Mitologiarum libri III
1438:
1383:
1357:. For other uses, see
1197:
1181:beginning of the world
1159:Religion and mythology
1154:
921:
800:Religion and mythology
6345:Wiles, David (2000).
6110:10.1353/jaf.2003.0027
5800:—, ed. (1984).
5691:Corner, John (1999).
5642:Bowker, John (2005).
5430:10.3983/twc.2016.0692
4627:Frankfort et al. 2013
4615:Frankfort et al. 2013
3807:, Inc. 1993. p.
3646:, pp. 41â42, 49.
2548:
2475:
2280:
2186:cultures might evolve
2094:
2080:Theologia Mythologica
2054:
1963:(or concerning soul);
1917:
1901:Myths and legends of
1899:
1682:Comparative mythology
1676:Comparative mythology
1607:Further information:
1576:
1492:) has termed India's
1446:Vatican Mythographers
1367:
1228:popular misconception
1177:
1149:
916:
763:Comparative mythology
63:Aboriginal Australian
21:Myth (disambiguation)
5987:Graf, Fritz (1996).
5673:Bulfinch's Mythology
5553:Apollodorus (1976).
5281:Mythological Studies
5264:Mythological Studies
5247:Mythological Studies
5230:Mythological Studies
5186:The Shape of Stories
5168:Mythological Studies
5133:Mythological Studies
5118:. London: Routledge.
4751:The Works of Plato I
4271:Culture and Religion
4231:Medieval Mythography
4184:Science & Spirit
3824:"Myth-Ritual-Symbol"
3413:"Letter Seventeenth"
3300:13 July 2021 at the
3043:13 July 2021 at the
2365:Bronislaw Malinowski
2317:Prometheus Pyrphoros
2252:"nature mythology".
2210:Edward Burnett Tylor
2129:Romantic Nationalism
2104:Finnish mythological
2047:European Renaissance
2039:mythology following
1780:represents the sun,
1459:Renaissance scholar
1321:As commonly used by
768:Comparative religion
730:Legendary progenitor
208:Continental Germanic
6293:Simpson, Jacqueline
6191:The Poetics of Myth
6141:on 27 December 2012
5939:12 May 2011 at the
5697:. Clarendon Press.
5152:. 17 November 2023.
5066:14 May 2008 at the
3286:Shuckford, Samuel.
3251:1 July 2017 at the
3225:1 July 2017 at the
3150:2 July 2017 at the
3081:Lydgate's Troy Book
3076:(in Middle English)
2787:Simpson, Jacqueline
2723:Magic and mythology
2708:List of mythologies
2672:Sarah Iles Johnston
2631:Clash of the Titans
2507:narrative materials
2440:Abrahamic religions
2377:social institutions
2290:. In the mythos of
2169:or stories told in
1836:James George Frazer
1374:Red Book of Hergest
1355:Mythology (fiction)
1152:Arthurian mythology
1076:traditional stories
1008:classical mythology
517:Proto-Indo-European
6576:Luminous gemstones
6471:Personal narrative
5919:. Waveland Press.
5796:56(Winter): 39â50.
5492:"Basque Mythology"
5458:The New York Times
5089:." pp. 131â160 in
4904:Dorson, Richard M.
3956:, pp. 22, 32.
3893:, pp. 99â101.
3446:Westminster Review
2569:
2421:post-structuralist
2322:
2311:Prometheus Unbound
2220:like agricultural
2120:
2115:VÀinÀmöinen's Play
2067:
1994:, writers such as
1927:
1912:
1807:Mythopoeic thought
1757:after mythologist
1609:Fictional universe
1498:as mythographers.
1384:
1201:José Manuel Losada
1155:
922:
718:Legendary creature
434:Pacific Northwest
6763:
6762:
6364:978-0-521-64857-8
6328:978-0-262-26484-6
6285:978-0-19-103769-6
6201:978-1-135-59913-3
6167:978-0-520-02404-5
6084:978-0-520-02389-5
6050:978-0-8042-0125-4
6027:978-1-300-55364-9
6004:978-0-8018-5395-1
5965:978-0-226-11256-5
5926:978-1-4786-0861-5
5905:978-0-06-131320-2
5881:978-0-226-48202-6
5846:, pp. 53â61.
5840:On Defining Myths
5817:978-0-520-05192-8
5783:978-0-8139-1657-6
5746:978-0-313-32696-7
5725:978-0-14-190375-0
5704:978-0-19-874221-0
5683:978-1-4191-1109-9
5659:978-0-19-861053-3
5620:978-0-37-452150-9
5596:978-0-307-36729-7
5572:978-0-87023-206-0
5546:978-90-420-1020-8
5364:, pp. 47â59.
5205:978-90-04-53976-1
5099:978-0-19-566896-4
5061:13030/ft3j49n8h7/
4930:, pp. 67â68.
4908:Myth: A Symposium
4890:978-3-7186-5321-8
4704:Meletinsky (2014)
4665:, pp. 19â20.
4399:978-0-00-710504-5
4369:Mythopoeia (poem)
4335:978-3-8325-4040-1
4153:978-0-19-515669-0
4100:978-0-19-954398-4
4040:978-0-312-22148-5
3916:978-0-19-871544-3
3881:, pp. 10â11.
3869:, pp. 9, 17.
3799:(10th ed.).
3735:, pp. 11â12.
3707:978-3-11-065252-9
3667:978-84-460-5267-8
3613:978-0-7591-1046-5
3557:978-0-19-871544-3
3522:978-0-14-044306-6
3238:Johnson, Samuel.
3209:Johnson, Samuel.
3015:978-0-8142-0162-6
2249:Lucien LĂ©vy-Bruhl
2245:figures of speech
2218:natural phenomena
2162:Epic of Gilgamesh
2141:Finnish mythology
2118:
1512:interdisciplinary
1463:, whose ten-book
1400:Hittite mythology
1297:Matter of Britain
1224:traditional story
961:with the suffix -
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6706:Folklore studies
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5950:Frankfort, Henri
5930:
5916:Myth and Reality
5913:— (1998).
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5885:
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5793:Western Folklore
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5750:
5736:Myth: A Handbook
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5668:Bulfinch, Thomas
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5581:Armstrong, Karen
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2202:nature mythology
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2027:Cupid and Psyche
1988:Middle Platonism
1841:The Golden Bough
1767:
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1665:Alfred Rosenberg
1661:J. R. R. Tolkien
1479:Snorri Sturluson
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1396:Celtic mythology
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