Myth (disambiguation)

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A myth is, broadly, any worldview-based traditional story, or collection or study thereof:

• Sacred narrative, which validates a religious system
• Origin myth, which purports to describe the origin of some feature of the natural or social world
  • Creation myth, symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it
  • Etiological myth, intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomena, proper names and the like
• Political myth, ideological explanation for a political phenomenon that is believed by a social group
• Mythology, a body of myths (e.g., Greek mythology) or the academic discipline that studies myths
• Fable
• Folklore, a broad body of cultural traditions
  • Folkloristics, the formal, academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore
• Legend, narrative that is perceived as within human history with certain qualities of verisimilitude
• Urban legend, contemporary legend or modern story with motivating significance

Myth may also refer to:

• Myth (series), a series of real-time tactical computer games, including:
  • Myth: The Fallen Lords
  • Myth II: Soulblighter
  • Myth III: The Wolf Age
• The Myth (film), a film starring Jackie Chan
• Myth: History in the Making, a platform game by System 3
• The Myth, nickname of Cuban bodybuilder Sergio Oliva (1941– )
• M.Y.T.H. Inc., a corporation in Robert Asprin's MythAdventures series
• "Myth-" (TV), a prefix in the MythTV open source software project
• Myth (warez), an underground PC game cracking group
• Myth: The Xenogears Orchestral Album, an album by Yasunori Mitsuda
• "Myth" A New Age music ensemble
• "Myth" (song), a song by the American indie rock band Beach House, from the album Bloom

See also

• Mythopoeia
• List of common misconceptions
• The Myth (disambiguation)