Mythology

1) Mythology is not unique to one culture, but is common to nearly all cultures. You can find myths not only from Ancient Greece and Rome, but from Africa, Native American, Egypt, Japan, China . . . and many more cultures.

2) Myths are a way of explaining the unexplainable. Some are based on fantastic beings, but some are based on known people and events and are a way of explaining and handing down history.

3) A body or collection of myths belonging to a people and addressing their origin, history, deities, ancestors, and heroes.

4) a story of forgotten or vague origin, basically religious or supernatural in nature, which seeks to explain or rationalize one or more aspects of the world or a society.

5)A myth is also distinctly different from an allegory or parable which is a story deliberately made up to illustrate some moral point but which has never been assumed to be true by anyone.

6) myths and mythologies seek to rationalize and explain the universe and all that is in it.