Myth in a sentence

Eliade, Myth and Reality, 162 Oleyar 5 Barrett 69 A number of modern Christian writers such as C.S. Lewis have described elements of Christianity, particularly the story of Christ, as "myth" which is also "true" ("true myth").

Frankfort, p. 15 Myth-ritual theory seeAlso According to the myth-ritual theory, the existence of myth is tied to ritual.

Mythology main An etiological myth, or origin myth, is a myth intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomena, proper names and the like.

It took me a long time to understand that the myth sold to me of ruddy-cheeked little kids engaged in sanguine or chortle-ful play without parental presence was just that—a myth.

There is a myth that people will just go somewhere else and die there, but that is a complete myth; we don’t see any evidence of that.

The scientific research though does not hold up and the 500-year-old myth of chocolate being good for the health is just that, a myth.

But attempts to dispel that myth tend to reinforce it, sometimes because the myth-busters’ love for black men seems indistinguishable from what’s supposedly despicable about them.

Then, with the help of a team of sleep medicine experts, they ranked the assumptions based on whether each could be supported by scientific evidence or debunked as a myth, as well as on the harm that the myth might cause.

The thriving and successful multicultural, multiracial empire held together solely by economic ethics is a myth and has always been a myth John.

According to this myth, people are often connected to others by an invisible red thread that predestines them to become lovers even if, as happened in the original myth, one of you used to bully your fated spouse!

Because their origin myth doesn’t align perfectly with your origin myth.

It was a work of sceptical history that debunked myth after myth, and battled against received opinion.

An etiological myth is a myth intended to explain a name or create a mythic history for a place or family.

A similar myth of immortalizing a child in fire is connected to Demeter (compare the myth of Meleager ).

Bismarck myth Gerwarth (2007) shows that the Bismarck myth, built up predominantly during his years of retirement and even more stridently after his death, proved a powerful rhetorical and ideological tool.

Carl F. H. Henry, quoted by Mohler The roots of the popular meaning of "myth" Especially within Christianity, objection to the word "myth" rests on a historical basis.

Eliade, Myth and Reality, p. 19 Lauri Honko asserted that, in some cases, a society will reenact a myth in an attempt to reproduce the conditions of the mythical age.

Forgetting the original reason for a ritual, they try to account for it by inventing a myth and claiming the ritual commemorates the events described in that myth.

Griffin, Roger, The Nature of Fascism (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991), p. 27. Griffin describes the ideology as having three core components: "(i) the rebirth myth, (ii) populist ultra-nationalism and (iii) the myth of decadence".

Heroic myth and monomyth The four heroes from the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West The concept of the "Mythic Hero Archetype" was first developed by Lord Raglan in his 1936 book, The Hero, A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama.