myth is the visionary literatureliterature
Literature is a type of art associated with Writing and language.
of the spirit, stories of a symbolsymbol
a symbol in semiotics participates in its own meaning. It is common in myth (Jung wrote a book on man and symbols)
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nor metaphormetaphor
in the making of speech and language the spirit is continually "sparking" between matter and mind, as it were, playing with this wondrous nominative faculty. behind every abstract expression the.... Some myths are etiological, serving as an explanationexplanation
An explanation is an account of some information, typically in the form of an answer to why or how that information fits together. Explanations usually includes relations of Causality.
@Wojtow... of some kind. These are called just-so or pourquoi stories. But not all myths are like that.
Archetypal patterns in myth include the hero's journeyhero's journey
the hero's journey or monomyth is a global narrative pattern in myth and literature found by Joseph Campbell. It is described in his book the hero with a thousand faces. similar patterns ca... and creation myths.
proto-indo-european myth covers and generalizes a vast swath of mythological stories. an interesting one is Chaoskampf (struggle against chaoschaos
before the seas and land had been created,
before the sky that covers everything,
nature displayed a single aspect only
throughout the cosmos; chaos was its name,
a shapeless, unwrought mass of ...), often involving a serpent-slaying hero.