Do they know what Mythology means?

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I hope very much that a place where dreams are posted flourishes. Very, very interesting.

Mythology is a vast subject, and not everyone knows about its meaning.

Rather like history, it is not easy to encapsulate or contain it. Why ???

Sacred stories from the world are numerous, and huge bodies of stories make up the complete works of a culture or civilization's belief system.

To say that One knows a lot of myths is to say that One knows nothing.

The 20th-century Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung, famous for his theory of the collective unconscious, believed that mythology reflects the memories and images shared by all humankind.

It reveals common themes, such as how the universe began, explanations of the forces of nature, the origins of people, personal quests and behaviour, social rules and beliefs, as well as personal and collective psychological growth.

In the words of the famous American mythology professor and writer, Joseph Campbell :

" Myths are public dreams; a dream is a private myth. "

Joseph Campbell re-established the power of myth and its shaping of our personal beliefs and values.

As per your posting, myths ..... " It was full of children dreams and what they imagined they'd /seen/heard/ felt etc ........ ??? "

The mind is the forerunner of all mental states. Whatever we do, it all begins in the mind.

" The mind is everything. What you think, you become. "

(The Enlightened One )

Myths are stories that concern our inner relationship with the divine or the ' unknown '.

Myths are reflections of how our own individual and collective desires, needs and fears. Like mirrors they remind us of how little we as humans have changed since ancient times.

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There are no ways, for Y!A to implement such measures of keeping such adolescents off the Y!A forum.

Myth is the core element of many belief systems and religions - not only giving meaning and purpose to people's lives, but enabling them to understand the world around them.

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This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word mythology

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

my•thol•o•gymɪˈθɒl ə dʒi(n.)(pl.)-gies.

a body of myths, as that of a particular people.

Category: Mythology

myths collectively.

Category: Mythology

the science or study of myths.

Category: Mythology

a set of stories, traditions, or beliefs that have accrued around a particular person, event, or institution.

Category: Common Vocabulary, Mythology

Origin of mythology:

1375–1425; late ME mythologie < LL mȳthologia < Gk mȳthología. See mytho -, -logy

my•thol′o•gist(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

mythology(noun)

myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person

mythology(noun)

the study of myths

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

mythology(noun)ɪˈθɒl ə dʒi

ancient myths considered as a group

Greek mythology; the mythologies of Native Alaskans

Wiktionary

mythology(Noun)

The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.

mythology(Noun)

A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.

mythology(Noun)

Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.

mythology(Noun)

The systematic collection and study of myths.

Webster Dictionary

Mythology(noun)

the science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths

Mythology(noun)

a body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks

Freebase

Mythology

A mythology is a body or collection of myths as well as the study of them. In folkloristics, a myth is a sacred narrative usually explaining how the world or humankind came to be in its present form, although, in a very broad sense, the word can refer to any traditional story. Bruce Lincoln defines myth as "ideology in narrative form". Myths may arise as either truthful depictions or overelaborated accounts of historical events, as allegory for or personification of natural phenomena, or as an explanation of ritual. They are transmitted to convey religious or idealized experience, to establish behavioral models, and to teach. Early rival classifications of Greek mythos by Euhemerus, Plato's Phaedrus, and Sallustius were developed by the neoplatonists and revived by Renaissance mythographers as in the Theologia mythologica. Nineteenth-century comparative mythology reinterpreted myth as evolution toward science, "disease of language", or misinterpretation of magical ritual. Later interpretations rejected opposition between myth and science, such as Jungian archetypes, Joseph Campbell's "metaphor of spiritual potentiality", or Lévi-Strauss's fixed mental architecture. Tension between Campbell's comparative search for monomyth or Ur-myth and anthropological mythologists' skepticism of universal origin has marked the 20th century. Further, modern mythopoeia such as fantasy novels, manga, and urban legend, with many competing artificial mythoi acknowledged as fiction, supports the idea of myth as ongoing social practice.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

Mythology

A body of stories, the origins of which may be unknown or forgotten, that serve to explain practices, beliefs, institutions or natural phenomena. Mythology includes legends and folk tales. It may refer to classical mythology or to a body of modern thought and modern life. (From Webster's 1st ed)