Could mythology be a way of expressing a truth for which people do not have the words to express otherwise?
Or is mythology always completely fiction? But if that were true, what then is the attraction to something un-true and ficticious which to be always fiction can't have any relevance to anyone?
2007-11-04 06:12:43 · 20 answers · asked by EisforEverything 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As long as we are not confusing "truth" with "fact," we might be able to draw some sorts of truth about human behavior and attitudes from myth.
2007-11-04 06:19:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Two days ago I saw a really amazing documentary on mythology and how ancient societies had reason to believe in what they did.(The history channel kicks butt.) It explained that most of what they believed was simply because of fossil findings that they couldn't explain. People would find remains of humans that had been burried next to animals which led to half human animal attrocities. There were many other myths explained as well.
I wish I could remeber what it was called, but anyway it mostly explained that yes, mythology was created by people to explain things they couldnt understand. I do not believe any of it was real.
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2007-11-04 14:22:34 · answer #2 · answered by SarahBear 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is, to me, like asking if there is any good food in rat poison.
Rat poison consists of 95 to 98% good food. Food rats love to eat. With 2 to 5% arsenic or some othe poison.
The good food is there to get the rats to eat it.
In the same way there is some truth behind many but not all myths.
Some myths are relatively harmless, such as Santa Claus, which started out with a real Saint named Nick.
Other myths are very harmful, such as the myth which says that the Virgin Mary appeared to a girl named Bernadette.
( I'll bet some of you didn't know that Bible believing Christians look at that as a myth. )
There is proof in the Scriptures that is a myth.
As a Christian I look very objectively at the Bible when I say there no myths in the Bible, its all true when read in context.
There is a myth that three wise men, bearing gifts, showed up at the stable where Jesus was born.
That myth is partly true and partly false.
First we know that some wise men showed up, and they brought three gifts, but we don't know how many wise men there were.
Second we know that the wise men came to a house, not to the stable and that could have occured as much as two years after Jesus was born.
Yet every Christmas play we see with little kids in it have three wise men at the stable visiting baby Jesus.
Most movies and TV shows, showing the nativity story have the wise guys in it as well.
People often ask, "What do you suppose Jospeh and Mary did with all that Gold, Frankinsense and Myrrr?"
( Sorry except for the gold, I probable didn't spell those other two gifts correctly. )
As I see it God had that all planned to finance the trip Joseph and Mary had to talk at the last minute to Egypt.
There is another myth which is partially true and that is that Jesus died for our sins on Good Friday.
Its true Jesus died for our sins, but a careful examination of the Scriptures shows us that Jesus died on Good Wednesday, not Friday.
Another myth is that at the Council of Nicea, they picked which books belonged in the Bible. I was taught this when I was a child and its in the DaVinci Code book, however the reality is they never discussed it at Nicea.
The question of which books belong in the Bible was settled by the Apostles before they died out.
There is lots of historical evidence as well as internal evidence in the New Testament, to prove this.
Now the Greeks and Romans had all sorts of myths to explain creation, how the world was make, what holds up the earth and how the stars go there.
All those myths are false.
Every false religion is based on myths.
Christianity is based on the fact that Jesus died for our sin and then rose from the dead.
Those are facts, not myths.
Pastor Art
2007-11-04 15:07:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mythology evolved from God's past science that mankind gave a science fiction label to.
2007-11-04 14:19:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, Prometheus for example was a fallen angel who came to give hidden knowledge, Zeus came to earth and got mortal women pregnant as did angels, Heracles (or Hercules in Roman) was a Nephilim, a man of old, a man of renown, as was Orion.
2007-11-04 14:27:19 · answer #5 · answered by ? and ?: The Light of the World 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think most mythology is true but has been embellished a bit though the handing down from years and years. I think the bible is similar.
2007-11-04 14:15:51 · answer #6 · answered by Lori 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There is no way to know the answer to that one. That is what makes it mythology. I believe some parts that make sense to me but not what doesn't make sense to me same as the bible.
I think it is more important to believe what makes sense to you not what other people tell you that you "should" believe like they do becasuse they think they have all the answers.
If you believe it it's true for you. If you don't believe it then you don't. No one can make you or tell you how you are supposed to think.
2007-11-04 14:18:49 · answer #7 · answered by didderjiddit 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think there is an element of truth in everything
and what seems like mythology to some is religion to another
2007-11-04 14:15:40 · answer #8 · answered by ☮ Pangel ☮ 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
A myth is a A fiction or half-truth, especially one that forms part of an ideology. A fictitious story, person, or thing.
2007-11-04 14:17:27 · answer #9 · answered by Kaliko 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Fiction ,like parables, can be a very good vehicle for communicating truths.
2007-11-04 14:17:35 · answer #10 · answered by James O 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋