CLT 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Etiology
13 Jan 2017
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Myth is orally transmitted: we have written texts about mythological stories, but myths predate them. Myth is a traditional story, handed over from a storyteller to another over the centuries. Myth is anonymous and subjected to change during oral transmission. It serves as a model for members of a group. It explains values and concerns of a society. Time: in a remote past or outside human chronology. Place: a location familiar to the audience, in the real world; an inaccessible place or a fictional world. Divine myths: to explain: the origins of the universe the origins of human beings and beasts, natural phenomena, why the world is the way it is, main characters: gods and supernatural beings. Legends: to narrate, events of the human past the story of cities and nations the rise of traditions and rituals technological and scientific progress, main characters: heroes and extraordinary mortals.
