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An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world. One specific kind of origin myth is the creation or cosmogonic myth, which narrates the formation of the universe. However, numerous cultures have stories that take place after the initial origin. These stories aim to explain the origins of ...
Theories that profess to provide the origin of myth claim to know not where and when myth first arose but why and how myth arises wherever and whenever it does. The issue of recurrent origin has been as popular with contemporary theories as with 19th-century ones, and interest in function and subject matter was as common to 19th-century ...
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The three myths selected here have much in common: accounts of the origin of the universe and the world, the idea of primordial chaos, darkness and great waters, and the initial absence of heaven and earth (and also, the power of the spoken word in naming parts of the universe).
This paper aims at exploring myth as a phenomenon of culture. The authors have used anthropological integrative approach, semiotic method of representing myth as a language of culture, as well as phenomenological method. Myths provide meaning and purpose to all elements of culture.
The origin myths adopted by the newly forming European nations all drew upon a common source: the story of Genesis, set down in scripture as an incontestable truth handed down from God. Each of these myths strove to synthesize biblical revelation with the history of antiquity and classical mythology in a single, unifi ed fresco of all human ...
This article is a sociologically informedhistory of the FrankfurtSchool with a focus on the bitter and contentious break between Erich Fromm and its other members in the late 1930s, particularlyAdorno,Horkheimerand in the 1950s with Marcuse.The breakbetween Frommand the FrankfurtSchool is explained with reference to both ideational (different in...
myth as fiction but as true history, a record of events that really took place and, what is more, exercise continued effectivity. Myth thus is not meditation but actuality; of its very essence it is a word that is charged with power. Therefore, when told, a myth is not only an account of a historical event but carries with it a formative
