ENG 2131 Lecture Notes - Sean Plott, Super Bowl Xxix, Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came
29 Jan 2014
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First starts to be used as an english word rather than a borrowed latin one in the 19th. A traditional story, typically involving supernatural beings or forces, which embodies and provides an explanation, aetiology, or justification for something such as the early history of a society, a religious belief or ritual, or a natural phenomenon. It has a further secondary definition: a widespread but untrue or erroneous story or belief; a widely held misconception; a misrepresentation of the truth. Also: something existing only in myth; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing. What we might complicatedly describe as western mythology finds its roots in a number of places. The ancient babylonian epic of gilgamesh, the earliest versions of which can be traced back to the 18th c. bce. The folklore and eventually theological narratives (both oral and written) of the. These tales come from a variety of traditions: hittite, assyrian,
