Myth & Legend Terms 1

What term describes states or habits of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing?

• civilization

• beliefs

• culture

• values

What is the culture characteristic of a particular time or place called?

• civilization

• hermeneutics

• legend

• myth

What term refers to the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group?

• values

• culture

• mythology

• polytheism

What is the study of the methodological principles of interpretation, especially of the Bible, called?

• hermeneutics

• mythography

• prehistoric

• civilization

What is a story coming down from the past called?

• myth

• legend

• values

• beliefs

What term refers to a period of 1000 years?

• millennia

• prehistoric

• polytheism

• hermeneutics

What is a narrative, usually religious in nature, which explains reality and expresses a sense of a culture's place in reality, but is more metaphorical and symbolic than literal?

• myth

• legend

• civilization

• values

What is the study of myths called?

• hermeneutics

• polytheism

• mythography

• civilization

What term refers to a collection of myths or the study of myths?

• mythology

• culture

• beliefs

• values

What is the belief in or worship of more than one god called?

• polytheism

• hermeneutics

• mythography

• civilization