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folklore is a collection of fictional tales about people or animals.

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FOLKLORE

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are often the cornerstone on which its culture is built.

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The myths and legends of a society

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provide a basis for moral boundaries and establish the basic guidelines for the way people
within a society live.

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Myths and legends

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becomes a foundation for a lot of religions that are practiced.

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Mythology

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are stories that tell us about battles between good and evil.

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Myths

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study of myths

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Mythology

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usually refers to something grand in scale and scope, often covering a
wide geographical range and thousands of years

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Mythology

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stories told as symbols of fundamental truths within societies having a
strong oral traditions

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Mythology

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Folk learnning

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Folklore

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includes the way of life of a group of people and creative expressions
developing naturally as part of this culture.

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Folklore

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generally limited to knowledge that is transmitted from one generation to another by
word of mouth or imitation; circulated orally

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Folklore

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may refer to all traditional knowledge, in societies without writing but in literate
societies (such as our own), it refers only to a fraction of the total culture and consists
principally of folk dance, folk medicine, folk music, and the various forms of folk literature

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Folklore

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include important elements such as superstitions and unfounded beliefs

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Folklore

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a fiction or half

truth, especially one that forms part of an ideology”

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Myth

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a story presented as historical, dealing with traditions specific to a
culture or a group of people; stories can either be cosmological, like battles
between deities, or mundane, which can be an average, ordinary person doing
superhuman things under certain circumstances

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Myth

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stories of the gods and of godlike heroes

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Myth

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tell of the beginning of our earth and our creation, of life and death, and destruction

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Myth

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explain the how and the why of life

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Myth

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emerge into legends, sagas, and tales

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Myth

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the most important myth of the culture
because it relates how the entire world came into being; revelation of beings and the
qualitative mode of creation becomes a model for all other forms of creation in culture.

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Creation myths

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any invented story, idea, or concept: His account of the
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vent is pure myth; an imaginary or fictitious thing or person an unproved or
false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution

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Pure myth

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the principal characters are gods and goddesses;
explain the ways of the gods; typically, the rules by which the gods and goddesses expect
people to live; often set in a time and place apart from the modern world; may be considered
by followers of some religions to be sacred texts

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Divine myths

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a long story, account, or sequence of events especially about
something dramatic or about historic events

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Saga

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a story coming down from the past especially: one popularly

Regarded as historical although not verifiable

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Legend

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a story in the past about a historical person; passed
down through generations; originally not written down; usually involves
kings or heroes

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Legend

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a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people

or folk, especially one forming part of the oral tradition of the common people

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Folktale

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magic, fantasy, happy ending

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Fairy tales

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stories about nature as told by shamans,
stories people tell about the sky are symbolic accounts of
shamanic ascent

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Primitive myths

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a religious practice that involves a practitioner who is
believed to interact with a spirit through altered states of consciousness,
such as trance; the goal of which is usually to direct these spirits or spiritual
energies into the physical world, for healing or another purpose

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Shamanism

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Greek and Roman tales of the interplay between

deitiesand humans

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Pagan myths

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usually
focus on spirituality and nature, rather than on doctrines and dogma.
Not all pagans believe in more than one god; some of them believe in only one god.

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Pagans

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stories from current eastern and western religions such as Christianity and Hinduism
-sacred objects are found in all religious traditions, and
sacred images
= stories that people turn to, to glimpse the transcendent, to
Conserve a faith tradition, to be authoritatively guided, or to address life’s big question

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Sacred myths

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considered as the most solemn and revered creeds

of science

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Scientific myths

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is a myth about science, or a myth or factoid that is commonly
thought to be scientific; scientific discoveries are often presented in a mythological way with a
theory being presented as a dramatic flash of insight by a heroic individual, rather than as the
result of sustained experiment and reasoning.

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Scientific myths

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including narratives of the creation and end of the world

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Cosmic myths

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portray the deities

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Theistic myths

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with accounts of individuals

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Hero myths

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describe places and object s

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Place and object myths

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concerned with the creation of cosmos

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Cosmological myths

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deal with the crucial events in human life; birth, puberty, marriage and death

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Life crisis myths

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Hunting and agricultural myths

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evolve around animals and hunt with accounts of individuals

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focus on extra ordinary individuals such as culture hero, trickster, god king and
savior

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Myths about extra ordinary individuals