CLASS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sacred Tradition
27 Sep 2016
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How a culture would explain their heritage and traditions. Myth is categorised by high emotional content, sacred tradition story, true telling of the past, universal importance with specific context, values and meanings that connect an individual to the whole, full of symbolism. When someone wo is particularly good at writing writes down a myth, this version is considered as true. Myth are set in a place that is not here or now. A time set far from human chronology, set a long time ago. By the time the myths are translated in art and literature, the gods are still believed in but not expected to mingle with humans. Different variants of myth by different writers and how the myth was passed down. There is always a better known version which people tend to take as true. Myth is not history but it sometimes does have historical aspects. Religious symbols are not myth but they can have mythical aspects to them.
