Posted: Mar 23, 2016 12:06 am
igorfrankensteen wrote:
Well, I'm not sure this particular list of limits of "myth" are all that useful to us. For one thing, this list seems to reject as myth, actual events which have been retold later in such a way as to have achieved mythic status.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'mythical status' or how it is 'achieved'.
I thought the points listed were interesting as a possible explanation of the narratives about some current deities.
igorfrankensteen wrote:
It also excludes all myths told about recent times, no matter whether they are mythic or not. And we certainly have plenty of them.
Each myth would need to be assesses separately and on it's merits.