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myth
/mɪθ/
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What does myth mean?
noun
- A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.
- Such stories as a genre.
- A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality.
More meanings (3)
noun
- A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
- A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
- An invented story, theory, or concept.
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The Texas myth as imagined by non-Texans is coming to embody oil millionaires in airplanes instead of horsemen with six-shooters and rifles.
In these, myth and legend were thrown aside, and we have an account simply dictated by the love of truth as truth.
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Thus we may see in the myth an early example of that religious syncretism which is so characteristic of later Egyptian belief.
This myth is sung in rhymed blank verse, a fact which is partly responsible for the wealth of names occurring in it.
But above all, it must be remembered that we can not depend upon either the geography or the chronology of a myth.