Myth (disambiguation)
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In the broadest sense a myth can refer to any traditional story, although folklorist
s prefer to use the term to refer to a sacred narrative
that validates a religious system. Normally, myth transpires outside or before human time. Mythic events within human history are often termed legend
s. Origin myth
s concern the origins of the world, and explain how the world and the creatures in it came to have their present form, whereas founding myth
s (Greek aition) are the etiological
myths that explain and justify the origins of a ritual
or the founding of a city. A political myth
can represent a particular interpretation of a historical experience or policy, or some acknowledged historical antecedents, invoked in the present to justify a certain policy.
Mythology
denotes a body of myths or their study.
Myth may also refer to:
Folkloristics
Folkloristics is the formal academic study of folklore. The term derives from a nineteenth century German designation of folkloristik to distinguish between folklore as the content and folkloristics as its study, much as language is distinguished from linguistics...
s prefer to use the term to refer to a sacred narrative
Sacred
Holiness, or sanctity, is in general the state of being holy or sacred...
that validates a religious system. Normally, myth transpires outside or before human time. Mythic events within human history are often termed legend
Legend
A legend is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude...
s. Origin myth
Origin myth
An origin myth is a myth that purports to describe the origin of some feature of the natural or social world. One type of origin myth is the cosmogonic myth, which describes the creation of the world...
s concern the origins of the world, and explain how the world and the creatures in it came to have their present form, whereas founding myth
Founding myth
A national myth is an inspiring narrative or anecdote about a nation's past. Such myths often serve as an important national symbol and affirm a set of national values. A national myth may sometimes take the form of a national epic...
s (Greek aition) are the etiological
Etiology
Etiology is the study of causation, or origination. The word is derived from the Greek , aitiologia, "giving a reason for" ....
myths that explain and justify the origins of a ritual
Ritual
A ritual is a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value. It may be prescribed by a religion or by the traditions of a community. The term usually excludes actions which are arbitrarily chosen by the performers....
or the founding of a city. A political myth
Political myth
A political myth is an ideological explanation for a political phenomenon that is believed by a social group.In 1975, Henry Tudor defined it in Political Myth published by Macmillan. He said In 2001, Christopher G...
can represent a particular interpretation of a historical experience or policy, or some acknowledged historical antecedents, invoked in the present to justify a certain policy.
Mythology
Mythology
The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...
denotes a body of myths or their study.
Myth may also refer to:
- A commonly-held but false belief or a popular conception about a real person or event which distorts, exaggerates or idealizes reality, see urban legendUrban legendAn urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend, is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true...
- Myth (computer game series), a series of real-time tactical computer games
- The Myth (film), a film starring Jackie Chan
- Myth (warez)Myth (warez)Myth was a warez group, focused on cracking and ripping PC games. Besides ripped games, the group also released trainers and cracked updates for games.-History:Myth was formed in February 2000, in a merger between Origin and Paradigm....
, an underground PC game cracking group - Myth: History in the MakingMyth: History in the MakingMyth: History in the Making is a 2D platform game published by British publishing house System 3 for the Commodore 64, Amiga, Amiga CD32, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum. It was also released on the NES as "Conan: The Mysteries of Time"...
, a platform game by System 3 - Myth: The Xenogears Orchestral AlbumMyth: The Xenogears Orchestral AlbumMyth: The Xenogears Orchestral Album is an arranged soundtrack to Square Enix's role-playing video game Xenogears. It is the third soundtrack to the game, after Xenogears Original Soundtrack and Creid, another arranged album, both released in 1998...
, an album by Yasunori Mitsuda - MythTVMythTVMythTV is a free and open source home entertainment application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living-room TV, and turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or home theater...
, an open source software project - Sergio OlivaSergio OlivaSergio Oliva is a bodybuilder known as "The Myth". This sobriquet was given to him by bodybuilder/writer Rick Wayne. Wayne had begun calling Oliva "The Myth" ""....
, Cuban bodybuilder, nicknamed The Myth
See also
- Mythology (disambiguation)Mythology (disambiguation)Mythology is a collection of myths, or the study of them.Mythology may also refer to:* Mythology , a 1942 book by Edith Hamilton* Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross, a 2004 coffee table book about Alex Ross...
- Mythos (disambiguation)
- MythAdventuresMythAdventuresMythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series by Robert Lynn Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Nye continued the series with seven more books...
- MythBustersMythBustersMythBusters is a science entertainment TV program created and produced by Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The series is screened by numerous international broadcasters, including Discovery Channel Australia, Discovery Channel Latin America, Discovery Channel Canada, Quest...
- MythQuestMythQuestMythQuest is a Canadian television series that originally aired on PBS in 2001. It stars Meredith Henderson and Christopher Jacot as Cleo and Alex Bellows, two teens whose father Matt disappears into the Cyber Museum, a computer program that, as they discover, allows them to travel into myths by...
- Mythopoeic (disambiguation)
- Myths