Mythology is the set of stories that deal with the gods, heroes and myths of their own of a people or culture. Myths are narratives that explain or give meaning to certain phenomena, traditions and beliefs.
The word mythology comes from Latin mythologyand in turn from the Greek μυθολογία (mythology), which means relationship of myths or fables.
Mythology is made up of the set of stories and beliefs, relatively cohesive, with which a people traditionally explains their origin and the reason for the existence of everything that surrounds them.
Hence we can affirm that mythology makes up the worldview or the belief system of a culture.
Mythologies are closely related to the religions of primitive peoples. Traditionally, the name mythologies has been given to the set of narratives of sacred origin.
After being secularized (displaced by another religion), these narratives have come to be treated as discourses related to a culture, a time or as a set of beliefs of an imaginary nature.
Thus, for example, Greek mythology, absorbed and amalgamated with roman under the name of Greco-Roman mythologywas displaced and reduced to the imaginary and considered a pagan religion after the imposition of Christianity.
Similar cases were recorded with mythologies such as Celticthe nordicthe egyptian and the Aztec.
On the other hand, mythology is also known as discipline in charge of the study of myths. In this sense, he dedicates himself to the study of the narratives with which ancient people explained the origin of things.
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