ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Myths and legends began to be recorded just as soon as humans mastered the technology of writing. Often the very first texts were hymns to the gods or collections of mythological stories that became organised into cycles, explaining how the world was created, how humans came into existence or why Death is necessary.

Detailed explanation-2: -Myths originate in cultures without writing (called oral cultures), and they are passed down by word of mouth. Since they are traditional, myths are created by a collective cultural process and not by one author. Moreover, myths must be tales, or stories, and not simply religious concepts or practices.

Detailed explanation-3: -myth, a symbolic narrative, usually of unknown origin and at least partly traditional, that ostensibly relates actual events and that is especially associated with religious belief.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is, on the one hand, just a story-a traditional story that usually addresses a natural phenomenon, often involving supernatural beings; on the other hand, myth is also defined as a false belief based on fantasy or delusion-an “all made up” form of thinking.