What is the difference between myth and mythology?
Mythology is a body or collection of myths belonging to a people and addressing their origin, history, deities, ancestors, and heroes. Mythology may also be a body of myths concerning an individual, event, or institution: “As an example, a new mythology, is essential to American funeral rites, has grown up (Jessica Mitford). There is as well the field of scholarship dealing with the systematic collection and study of myths. A Myth is an anonymous story or stories having roots in the primitive folkbeliefs of races or nations and presenting supernatural episodes as a means of interpreting natural events in an effort to make concrete and particular a special perception of human beings or a cosmic view. Myth is also the absence of anomaly-at least from one perspective. From another, staked out by Emile Durkheim’s school of sociology, myth represents a projection of social and cultural patterns upward onto a superhuman level that sanctions and stabilizes the secular ideology. they all atte
