everyone in the world knows a basic word.myth.everyone knows what it means,but its hard to explain.but there's one question.where do myths get started?how do they get started?how to they get out?

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a myth a true myth has the eliment of truthsome words ring truer than others 'most popular' is usually the most identifiyed with sensation in general we know when something is right or wrong - this is the role of upbringing myths in general are warnings or wishes arnt they reallya myth teaches a lesson or gives us reason to think...reflectreflect this humain laugauage the development of it in terms of slang and all that butin eveolutional terms language - communication raises the stage of playbooks upon books, theorys upon theorys, words upon wordsloads and loads of oafs waffeling thier thoughts on this and on that all boiled down to a fraze or sayingin the nick of time so to speak...where am i going?in the late 1700's a rolling stone gathereds no moss - meaning people always pay a price for being on the move lack of putting down rootsonly! 300 years later....now its not faceing up to responsiblites acting like a young buck...However just over 300 years later and we see that this kind of laugage is computing at a excellirated speed - yada yada yada in the 1980's is the Blah Blah Blah of todaysignifiying that again there is an aful lot of knowledge that everyone already knows as the truth - whats the pointbut in the 80's computers toys everything was coming out for childrenyada yada signifyed the old yabbering of nosey old ladiesblah blah blah is coldnot the point howeverthe moon butterfly something to do with New Zealand has just performed the most remarkable revolution evolutionary historyand the big boys argue over there oil while a kiwi has already designed an engine that works on water back in the was it 1960's but as my husband says cant change people

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Before defining the term "mythology" one needs to define the meaning of the word "myth". The word itself comes from the Greek "mythos" which originally meant "speech" or "discourse" but which later came to mean "fable" or "legend".The word "myth" was defined as a story of forgotten or vague origin, basically religious or supernatural in nature, which seeks to explain or rationalize one or more aspects of the world or a society. all myths are, at some stage, actually believed to be true by the peoples of the societies that used or originated the myth.A myth is also distinctly different from an allegory or parable which is a story deliberately made up to illustrate some moral point but which has never been assumed to be true by anyone.Some myths describe some actual historical event, but have been embellished and refashioned by various story tellers over time so that it is impossible to tell what really happened. In this last aspect myths have a legendary and historical nature. Broadly speaking myths and mythologies seek to rationalize and explain the universe and all that is in it. Thus, they have a similar function to science, theology, religion and history in modern societies. Systems of myths have provided a cosmological and historical framework for societies that have lacked the more sophisticated knowledge provided by modern science and historical investigation.Creation myths provide an explanation of the origin of the universe in all its complexity. They are an important part of most mythological systems. Creation myths often invoke primal gods and animals, titanic struggles between opposing forces or the death and/or dismemberment of these gods or animals as the means whereby the universe and its components were created. Apart from an explanation of the creation of the universe, mythologies also seek to explain everyday natural phenomena. The Egyptian scarab god Khepri, who rolled the ball of the sun across the sky each day thus provided an explanation of the rising of the sun each day, its progress across the sky and its setting in the evening. Similarly, the Maori of New Zealand attributed the morning dew to the tears of the god Rangi (Heaven) for the goddess Papa (Earth) from whom he was separated. This class of myth is sometimes called a nature myth.A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world -Alan Watts.What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way - Bertrand Russell.Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description - D. H. Lawrence.The shaping of deeply felt values into meaningful, apposite form, is present in all communities, and will find some means of expressions among all - Dell Hymes.History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth - E. L. Doctorow.It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved -Irwin Edman.Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning - Joan D. Vinge.

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Global warming.

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