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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.
Keywords:
Reality,
Imagination,
Repersentation,
Oversimplified,
Pretence
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
n.: A female moth.
a famale moth
a feminine moth
a moth's sister
a masked metaphor for what lies behind the visible world
a mask of God, a metaphor for what lies behind the visible world
a metaphor or symbol, and not a factual way of speaking
a series or progression of symbols expressive of a common large, complex referent
Keywords:
Senseless,
Happens,
Sense,
Fictionalized,
World
A fictionalized account of something that actually happens, usually analogous rather than literal
an event that in some sense happened once but which also happens all the time
an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world
a way of making sense in a senseless world
Keywords:
Explanation,
Fanciful,
Primitive,
Invitation,
Phenomenon
a fanciful explanation of a given phenomenon
a fanciful explanation of a given primitive man wished to account for them
an explanation for what is going on with no evidence that supports the explanation and no invitation to find evidence
Keywords:
Religion,
Worshippers,
Longer,
Attracts,
Adherents
a religion in which no one any longer believes
a religion no longer attracting worshippers
a religion which no longer attracts adherents
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