What is myth? (tradition, evolve, creation, genesis, myths)

[michel]

Originally Posted by Buttercup

To me a myth is a traditional story or person that has no basis in truth yet may be just believable enough to pass as truth. A myth has very little or no evidence to support it as truth.

Could a myth not be a traditional story, exagerated, and added to (in time), which is then accepted as a myth for lack of proof of it's verity.

[painted wolf]

someone elces religion.

wa:do

[Kay]

bumpity bump

[Willamena]

Originally Posted by Buttercup

To me a myth is a traditional story or person that has no basis in truth yet may be just believable enough to pass as truth. A myth has very little or no evidence to support it as truth.

Can there not be a myth that is founded in truth, in fact, in actual events? For instance, the skill of a celebrity baseketball player (or a whole team) elevated to a level of the sacred?

[painted wolf]

I should think that most myths have some basis in truth, however tennuous.
Look at modern myths say about american history.

George Washington and the cherry tree... The ride of Paul Revere....

wa:do

[lunamoth]

Random's definition is very good. I would say it slightly differently (so as to reflect my own myth), that it is a story that tells about the connection/relationship between a people and their god(s). A myth is about truth, but not necessarily about fact.

[Buttercup]

Originally Posted by Willamena

Can there not be a myth that is founded in truth, in fact, in actual events? For instance, the skill of a celebrity baseketball player (or a whole team) elevated to a level of the sacred?

I understand where you're headed ( I think) but in my mind a myth is mostly fabrication...not just a tiny fraction. It seems that often there's just enough truth or fact to make the story believable but most of it is fiction.

[Willamena]

Originally Posted by Buttercup

I understand where you're headed ( I think) but in my mind a myth is mostly fabrication...not just a tiny fraction. It seems that often there's just enough truth or fact to make the story believable but most of it is fiction.

Do you think it matters that its fabrication or fact?

[wednesday]

Originally Posted by michel

Could a myth not be a traditional story, exagerated, and added to (in time), which is then accepted as a myth for lack of proof of it's verity.

Possible: Example - Norse Mythology, Finnish Mythology, Greek Mythology... the list continues. It basically a myth that has become folklore i guess which is passed down in different words to different generations?