There's also a technical definition of myth used in some branches of anthropology a myth is a story which is told as true and is set outside of normal time For example, Australian aboriginal myths are set in the Dreamtime, while Greek myths are set in a golden age or age of heroes, but in both cases they're told by the people who created them as true The true hero is revealed and the false hero is punished An example is the story of Cinderella where the stepmother and the two stepsisters who The concept of myth that we have inherited from the Greeks belongs, by reason of its origins and history, to a tradition of thought peculiar to Western civilization in which myth is defined in terms of what is not myth, being opposed to reality (myth is fiction) and secondly, to what is rational (myth is absurd)
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