Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing , which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee. And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. God will not tolerate the mixing of idolatrous practices and true worship. It is often intended to explain the workings of the universe, nature, or human history.
Myths combine religious purposes with explanatory purposes and have been widely used in literature.
The term was originally applied to books used in Christian religious services. A saga is a prose narrative written down between the 11th - 13th centuries in Norway and Iceland. A fable is a story in which animals or inanimate objects are given the mentality and speech of human beings to point out a moral. Fables are common in folklore and children's literature. Fairy tales are magical stories that are usually folk tales in origin.