Mythology

______________________(from the Greek mythos for story-of-the-people, and logos for word or speech, so the spoken story of a people) is the study of stories which deal with various aspects of the human condition: good and evil; the meaning of suffering; human origins; the origin of place-names, animals, cultural values, and traditions; the meaning of life and death; the afterlife; and the gods or a god.

• Mythology

• Fable

• Tall tale

• Fairy tale

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the Greek mythos for _____________

• spoken word

• religion

• story-of-the-people

• pineapples

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The two main aspects of myth:

• Reliability, Validity

• Truth;

  Staying power

• Significance;

  honesty

• Significance; Staying power

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__________: a story that has roots in history but not confirmed

• Folktale

• Fable

• Legend

• Tall tale

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___________the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth

• Folklore

• Fiction

• Legend

• Mythology

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__________a children’s story about magical/imaginary beings and lands. A fabricated or idealized story.

• Mythology

• Fable

• Tall tale

• Fairytale

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Sometimes the stories were told in song, making them ___________

• Nursery rhymes

• Odes or Ballads.

• Limericks

• Lullabies

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_________ myths explain why a certain thing is the way it is or how it came to be.

•          Psychological

• Disney

•       Historical

•        Etiological

      

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  _____________retell an event from the past but elevate it with greater meaning than the actual event (if it even happened).

•      Etiological

• Psychological

•     Historical

     

• Disney

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_____________ present one with a journey from the known to the unknown.

• Historical

• Psychological

• Disney

• Etiological

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