Is there really mythology? Does it all exist or is it just ignorance and denial of science?

Answer 1

The opposite, actually. Science is man's poor attempt to explain marvelous events.

Answer 2

Myth necessarily doesn't have to exist. It is just a story used to explain an event that is or was currently unexplanable. For example, the Greek Theogony is an allegory for the creation of the universe and of life. Ancient Greeks didn't know about gravity and the big bang theory, so they created stories to mitigate that doubt, and that's how we get mythology. We have mythology even in today's society. Some people may consider the creation stories of our current religions as mythology for they explain the creation of the world or explain phenoma that were total mysteries to those who saw and wrote about them.

Answer 3

I think it was to explain the unexplained to a great extent, however, did you ever hear the theory that when the Englishman first saw a crocodile in the river Nile? he wrote about it to send home. The description of a fierce reptile with a long mouth full of teeth that the knight bravely battled got a little misinterpreted. In olden times, people of status spoke with floufication, making their words very elaborate and eloquent. Between a fair bit of exaggeration and the fact that photos had not been invented...someone trying to draw the beast the knight had slain somehow got turned over time into the dragon.

However, I still firmly believe in the loch ness Monster, so who am I to say?

Answer 4

myth - by definition is a story, a falsehood.

myth |miθ| noun

1 a traditional story, esp. one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events. • such stories collectively : the heroes of Greek myth.
2 a widely held but false belief or idea : he wants to dispel the myth that sea kayaking is too risky or too strenuous | there is a popular myth that corporations are big people with lots of money. • a misrepresentation of the truth : attacking the party's irresponsible myths about privatization. • a fictitious or imaginary person or thing. • an exaggerated or idealized conception of a person or thing : the book is a scholarly study of the Churchill myth.

Answer 5

carl sagan summed it up pretty good.

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

Answer 6

Mythology by definition (actual defintion) is "a belief of a people" beliefs can be real or imagined... by defintion, ALL religions fall under mythology