Myths

Introduction

Myth symbolic narrative, usually of unknown origin and at least partially traditional, that ostensibly relates actual events and that is especially associated with religious faith. It differs from symbolic behavior (cult, ritual) and symbolic places or objects (temples, icons).

Thesis Statement

Myths of the specific accounts of gods or superhuman beings involved in extraordinary events or circumstances at the time, that is not defined but is understood as existing apart from ordinary human experience(Lang 202). The term mythology denotes both the study of myth and the body of myths belonging to a particular religious tradition.

As with all religious symbolism, there is no attempt to justify mythic narratives or even make them believable. Every myth presents itself as an authoritative, factual account, regardless of how the events recounted are in conflict with natural law or ordinary experience (Armstrong 176). In a broader sense, this primary religious meaning, the word myth may also be used more loosely to refer to ideological belief when that belief is the object of quasi-religious faith, an example would be the Marxist eschatological myth of the withering away of the state.

While the plan myths of the past period or from society than their own, usually seen clearly, to recognize the myths that are dominant in their own time and society is always difficult. This is not surprising, because the myth has its authority not by proving itself, but imagining. In this sense, the power of myth is really a "course", and the myth can be described only if his authority is no longer unquestioned but has been rejected or overcome in some way other, more comprehensive myth.

Origin

The word myth comes from the Greek myth, which has a range of "word" through "talk" and "history", in "Fiction"; unquestioned fairness myth can be compared with the logos, word, action or truth can be stated and demonstrated (Doty 196). Because the myths tell us a fantastic event, not an attempt to prove, it is sometimes assumed that they are just stories with no factual basis, and the word has become synonymous with lies, or, at best, misleading. In the study of religion, however, it is important to distinguish between the myths and stories that are simply untrue. The nature, functions and types of myth

The myth exists in every society. Indeed, it would seem the basic component of human culture. Because diversity is so great, it is difficult to make generalizations about the nature of myths. But it is clear that in their general characteristics and details of people's myths reflect, express and explore people's self-image. The study of myth is central to the study of individual societies and human culture in general. Relationship myths with other forms of narrative

In Western culture, there are a number of literary and narrative genres that scholars have been linked in various ways to myths. Examples of fables, fairy tales, fairy tales, sagas, epics, legends, fairy tales and etiologic (which are reasons or explain why the matter is, as it ...