How do you relate myths to religion?

Question

like how does it explain the creation of something

Answer 1

There's no difference.
When a religion falls out of general practice, it becomes a body of myths.

Answer 2

IMHO, The Golden Bough is one of the best books about on religion and Myth as far as the majority of such things. On the other hand there is Literature of the American Indian that covers those folks that were creating the myths and religions in North America before the Europeans showed up.The biggest religion is that humankind sometimes builds the everyday into mythic proportions to create a religion.

Answer 3

Generally all myths (Such as greek myth and legend...) were originally common religious beliefs. the "death" of a religion will cause the creation of a myth over time. Eventually (thousands of years from now) our commonplace religious beliefs may become myth and legend. In reference to how it explains The creation of something... Religion would come first and its job would be to explain how we got here, where we came from, what created us etc... as the religion dies it would become a myth and so on and so on.

Answer 4

I can only quote the Bible , it doesn't really explain how God created the universe!..You have to separate myth from fact!..You do this by searching for the evidence!..The old testament for instance, is full of unsubstantiated mythology!..The 6000 year old universe of the book of Genesis we know is utterly silly..There is not a bit of historical evidence that the 'passover' ever happened, or the parting of the Red Sea, You'd think the Egyptian scriveners would have recorded such momentous things!..The flood is another, no scientific evidence exists for such a cataclysmic occurrence, although that flood may have been a local event in the Tigris Euphrates Valley, and they thought that WAS the whole world!..You could go on and on here, giants mating with humans..Samson..All of this is pure mythology!..However!..Remember that in most mythology..There is usually a basis in fact!..But over the years of telling and embellishing, it gets blown out of all proportion, and enters the realm of mythology!

Answer 5

Easily -what we currently call mythology was/is other people's guidelines on how to live. Technically, even the bible can be seen as a collection of mythologies, because it tells a series of stories meant to guide people on how to live and act. It also tells how things came to be, as many of the other mythologies do.
For example - bible's creation myth - created by god. Norse creation myth - mankind is created by a god. Native American (could get tribe specific, but I won't) - mankind is created by a god. Each holds a "garden of Eden" type of story; most religions even hold a flood story in their many mythologies. A trickster demi diety is introduced in each - the coyote, Loki, Satan, etc.

Your myth is someone else's religious stories.

Answer 6

totally complementary. myths are a way for mankind to explain what he cannot so that he may feel some sense of control over the unknown. you know all religion is??? i'll give you three chances to gues(you should only need one)

Answer 7

All mythology was religion at one point, and hopefully all religion will be mythology in the near future. None of it is true.

Answer 8

all religions are based on myths

Answer 9

Ask Joseph Campbell. He explains it, in a basic way, better, without offending anyone.

Answer 10

i don't, i stick to the Bible and leave myths in the books where they belong. there is no story out there that will ever compare to what our God did for us.