A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.

Myth is the language of imaginative insight into ultimate reality, which not only reveals the truth under the form of symbol, but also enables those who receive the myth to participate somehow in the very experience of the one who invoked it. To know a myth, therefore, in the proper sense is to be initiated into a unique experience of reality.

fantasy about reality within 1 paradigm.

a fabrication of the human mind explaining a mystical event

a form of pretence, an oversimplified repersentation of a more complex reality

a mental model with which people try to interpret reality and respond to it

an attempt to capture, usually in dramatic and poetic form, some hidden or elusive reality

an attempt to explain a reality with the mental tools available

a profoundly true statement which speaks to universal aspects of life and reality