Category:Mythology

A myth is, broadly, any worldview-based traditional story, or collection or study thereof:


 * Sacred narrative, which validates a religious system
 * Myth of origins, which purports to describe the origin of some feature of the natural or social world
 * Creation myth, symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it
 * Etiological myth, intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomena, proper names and the like
 * Political myth, ideological explanation for a political phenomenon that is believed by a social group
 * Mythology, a body of myths (e.g., Greek mythology) or the academic discipline that studies myths
 * Fable
 * Folklore, a broad body of cultural traditions
 * Folkloristics, the formal, academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore
 * Legend, narrative that is perceived as within human history with certain qualities of verisimilitude
 * Urban legend, contemporary legend or modern story with motivating significance