Assertion: myth | /r/HasProperty | narrative
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text: Myths are Narratives that are "Counter-Factual in featuring actors and actions that confound the conventions of routine experience" (McDowell, 80).
text: Most people think of mythology as the stories of long dead civilizations, but a myth is any narrative that’s been collectivized.
text: By contrast, a myth is a narrative which also has elements of fantasy, usually starring supernatural and heroic characters, but instead of trying to narrate a historical event it seeks to explain the origin of the world, natural phenomena or certain religious rituals linked to the community or civilization in question.
text: Myths are narratives that were created by ancient people to explain aspects of the world that they did not understand.
text: Myths are narratives that express the basic valuations of a religious community.
text: The myths Plato invents, as well as the traditional myths he uses, are narratives that are non-falsifiable, for they depict particular beings, deeds, places or events that are beyond our experience: the gods, the daemons, the heroes, the life of soul after death, the distant past, etc.