SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MAYFLOWER SETTLEMENT
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something that people think is a lie, and that is a lie
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something that people believe to be true, and that is true
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something that people believe to be true, but that may not be true
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something that people think is a lie, but that is actually true
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the nineteenth century, the word ‘myth’ was used as an antonym for anything that was not ‘real’. For the Greeks, mythos meant ‘fable’, ‘tale’, ‘talk’, ‘speech’. Contrasted with both logos and later with historia, mythos finally came to denote ‘what cannot really exist’ (Eliade, 1970:1132).
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -In the broadest terms myths are traditional stories about gods, kings, and heroes. Myths often relate the creation of the world and sometimes its future destruction as well. They tell how gods created men. They depict the relationships between various gods and between gods and men.
Detailed explanation-4: -Some examples of famous myths are: Hercules and the Lion (Ancient Greece) The Birth of Horus (Ancient Egypt) The Children of Lir (Ireland)