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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corjay" data-source="post: 4366224" data-attributes="member: 52839">Oh really. Your evidence?Here's mine:Webster's1 a: a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenonb: parable, allegory2 a: a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone; especially : one embodying the ideals and institutions of a society or segment of society <seduced by the American myth of individualism — Orde Coombs>b: an unfounded or false notion3: a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence4: the whole body of mythsYour definition is only 1a. Mine fulfills the rest."Myth" from Wikipedia:Under "Academic Usage":In the academic fields of mythology, mythography, or folkloristics, a myth is a sacred story usually concerning the origins of the world or how the world and the creatures in it came to be their present form. The active beings in myths are generally gods and heroes. Myths are often said to take place before recorded history begins. A myth is a sacred narrative in the sense that it contributes to systems of thought and values, and that people attach religious or spiritual significance to it. Use of the term by scholars implies neither the truth nor the falseness of the narrative.Sorry, Leatherhead, but you're going to have to come up with something better than declaring "...defined by anthropologists."What historical figure are you going to point at as being the historical origin of Zues? Ra? or any number of gods from classic literature?</blockquote>

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