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Keywords:
Story,
Supernatural,
Hero,
Explain,
Belief
A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.
Metaphorical narratives about the relation between this world and the sacred; the language used for talking about what is ultimately real.
a common story or legend. Although the word "myth" means untrue to some people, to others the word embodies a different kind of "truth" which expresses their deepest and truest values, fears, hopes, and beliefs.
A popular belief that is false or unsupported by facts.
a legend, usually made up in part of historical events, that helps define the beliefs of a people and that often has evolved as an explanation for rituals and natural phenomena
"a traditional story of unknown authorship, ostensibly with a historical basis, but serving usually to explain some phenomenon of nture, the origin of man, or the customs, institutions, religious rites, etc., of a people ...: the exploits of gods and heroes" [Websters dictionary] ; a definition in keeping with contemporary usage: " any real or fictional story, recurring theme, or character type that appeals to the consciousness of a people by embodying its cultural ideals or by giving expression to commonly felt emotions" ( After the Fact, p. 405)
A fictional story to explain the origin of some person, place or thing.
A narrative in which some characters are superhuman beings who do things that "happen only in stories"; hence, a conventionalized or stylized narrative not fully adapted to plausibility or "realism."
A sacred story that conveys a religious worldview. Especially, a story about primeval times that involves supernatural figures and events.
A popular idea about social patterns which is based on false assumptions such as, women need/want to be protected by men.
A traditional, communal narrative, often involving fantastic or supernatural figures and events. In their inception, myths were transmitted orally, and both their authorship and their audience were anonymous and communal. Typically, they have a timeless, generic quality, with no specific historical setting. Their style tends to be na•ve or deadpan in manner, but whatever their ostensible motive the essential meaning is of myths is usually covert, lying in their symbolism. Many myths recount a hero's adventures involving a series of dangerous encounters with the unknown. These encounters may be interpreted psychologically as steps in a process of self-discovery and realization of the unconscious or spiritually as revelations of the divine potential within the mundane. See also "prefigurative device."
like allegory, myth usually is symbolic and extensive, including an entire work or story. Though it no longer is necessarily specific to or pervasive in a single culture—individual authors may now be said to create myths—there is still a sense that myth is communal or cultural, while the symbolic can often be private or personal.
a traditional story that attempts to explain a natural phenomenon or justify a certain practice or belief in society
a story which, although not strictly "true", enable people to grasp a great truth in symbolic terms. For example: the English myth of Robin Hood tells the story of a people's struggle for justice over oppression.
n. a traditional story, orally transmitted among the folk of the acts of gods and supernatural beings; a story of a mythology hero which served to explain actions of supernatural beings. For example, the myths of Jove, Venus and Hercules, have persisted in poetry.
A story of an intracosmic ground: taking one thing in the cosmos as the ground of being of another.
a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
a belief held without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation
a belief some people have that is not true
a belief that is not based on fact or has been passed down to us without a strong foundation of validity
a collective cultural experience, which provides a framework for how we think about the world
a delusional belief that the group adopts and acts upon
a fabrication created from an analysis of half-truths
a fact in their eyes
a false account bearing truth
a false, fictitious, imaginary, or exaggerated belief about someone or something
a false idea whose support derives from literary or folkloric beliefs
a fiction or half truth, especially one that forms part of an ideology
a human way of exploring and dealing with a mysterious truth
a legendary story built up through storytelling and thought to be fictitious
a leyend or story, ussualy one that attemps to account for something in nature
a likely but luring story for a segment of mankind
a living, breathing entity that commands respect by its simple adherence to a truth
a magical story about how natural forces work (death, creation, weather)
an abstract conception dramatized
an account of sacred history
an ancient story, which may be filled with heroes and supernatural figures
a narrative that attempts to explain basic truths by using symbols
a narrative which discloses a sacred world
a narrative which seeks to explain historical, theological, natural, psychological, or moral truths in a metaphorical fashion
an attempt to explain mysteries, supernatural events, and cultural traditions
an explanation that is supposed to be meaningful, and whose historical or empirical truth status is actually irrelevant
an idea people keep in their minds upon which they build their beliefs, such as the idyll of the peaceful British countryside with white churches and so on
an idea that forms part of the beliefs of a group but is not founded on fact
an idea with a germ of truth that has become universalized
an imaginary, fictitious or invented story about a thing or event
an imaginary story based upon a fictitious person, place, or thing
an imaginary story that lives in the minds of people that tell it, working as a set of instructions for how things are or should be
an improbable story that develops over a long time
an orally transmitted story about the supernatural, believed by its traditional tellers, generally set in the distant past, and accounting for the origin of something
an orally transmitted story about the supernatural, So whether an urban legend can be true or not depends on what definition you use
an uncritically accepted story that tells us how the world works, what is the source of evil and the means of redemption, and what is deeply meaningful to human life
an unverifiable account of an historical event
a partial truth, even an outright lie which is used by a caste of power , or a provider of information, to hide dangerous truths, and limit knowledge among a mass of believers
a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone, embodying the ideas and institutions of a segment of society
a process of telling stories, most of which ain't true
a purely fictional story that has been passed on for generations, usually involving supernatural persons, actions or events
a sacred or symbolic story from the past, and it may be ritualistic in nature
a sort of belief system
a story about a god or goddess
a story about beginnings, origins
a story about gods or deities
a story about the gods which sets out to explain why life is as it is
a story about the universe that is considered sacred
a story about why things are the way they are
a story a person (or culture) constructs to make sense of the world around them
a story, based partly on historical fact, which helps a people develop a worldview
a story by which a people chart its shared life and history
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