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Divine myth
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Central focus=the gods
time=before present order
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Legend/saga
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Central focus=NOBLE humans
events belong to our own time
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Folktale
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Central focus= often ordinary humans
primary focus=entertainment
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Xenophanes of Colophon
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-didn't believe divine had anthropomorphic forms
-didn't believe divine as taught by Homer
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Allegory
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Not to be taken seriously
e.g. King Midas' touch
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Euhemerism
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Myth that arises from historical events that have been exaggerated; form of rationalism
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Rationalism
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Has myth represent logical thinking
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Etymological Theory
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Uses words to decipher meaning through roots.
e.g. Hades- Greek for "not seen"
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Externalist Theories
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-view myth as a product of the environment
e.g. Naturalism, Ritualism, charter theory, myth & etiology
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Naturalism
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-Max Muller
-myth explain natural phenomena
-allegorical interpretation
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Ritualism
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-Frazer
-myths explain rituals
e.g. Demeter & Eleusinian mysteries
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Charter theory
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-Malinowski
-Myths validate communal institutions, beliefs, & practices
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Myth & etiology
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Aition=cause (Greek); myth addresses origins
e.g. pandora's box
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Internalist Theories
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Myth as a product of the mind
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Freudian Theory
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E.g. Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
-myths represent repressed childhood desires (Oedipus complex)
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