Become Real Through Repetition

Create Echoes

Decrease Resolution

Echo

Endure

Exist Only As Records

Grow In Darkness

Invite Interpretation

Need Interpretation To Exist

Outlive Evidence

Outlive Explanation

Outlive Intentions

Outlive Their Purpose

Outlive Their Usefulness

Survive Their Container

Travel Well

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is a symbolic and pre-logical mode of expression (2) a story which serves political functions (3) held together by the single principle of emotional unity.

Cassirer, while seeking to avoid prescribing a definition of myth and limiting himself to a descriptive enterprise, has nevertheless found a lowest common prescriptive denominator in his definition of myth: 1) that myths are symbolic and pre-logical modes of expression... 2) that myths are stories which serve political functions... and 3) that all myths are held together by the single principle of emotional unity. Strenski criticizes Cassirer on the grounds that even if such a monistic principle is applicable to every myth (a matter of some doubt), by advancing such a general prescription for understanding myth he has not really added to our understanding.

is, firstly, mythos or narrative, words arranged in a sequential order.

Myth to me, then, means first of all mythos or narrative, words arranged in a sequential order.

is a barbarous word, but no more so than other words beginning with 'de.'.

a barbarous word, but no more so than other words beginning with 'de.'

is a conventionalized or stylized narrative not fully adapted to plausibility or 'realism.'.

Myth: A narrative in which some characters are superhuman beings who do things that 'happen only in stories'... hence, a conventionalized or stylized narrative not fully adapted to plausibility or 'realism.'

is a disease of language, a grammatical confusion whereby, on the one hand, a God with several names was taken to be multiple different figures, and on the other, multiple Gods were mistaken as being a singular God.

According to Müller, mythology is the result of a 'disease of language.' The fact that an object can have many names (polynomy) and, conversely, that the same name can be applied to several objects (homonymy) produced a confusion of names. This gave rise to the combination of several gods into one and the separation of one god into many. Nomina-numina: what was at the beginning a name, nomen, became a divinity, numen. Moreover, the use of endings denoting grammatical gender led to the personification of the gods.' )

is a dramatization of the inner workings of the psyche.

metaphors or dramatizations of the inner workings of the dimension of the psyche he calls the archetype' (Buchanan 327)

is a form of indigenous exegesis, treating of origins but derived from transition.

form of indigenous exegesis, treating fo origins but derived from transition

is a language, which is to say that we do not define it by the content of its sentences but rather by its syntax, by the rules governing the sentences' construction.

as a functional structure [it is] analogous to language in that we do not define it by the content of its sentences but rather by its syntax, by the rules governing the sentences' construction. 'If there is meaning to be found in mythology, this cannot reside in the isolated elements which enter into the composition of a myth, but only in the way the elements are combined'

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