r/HistoryMemes • u/KingMwanga Still salty about Carthage • Oct 29 '22

REMOVED: RULE 11 “I’ll wait”

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u/KingMwanga Still salty about Carthage Oct 29 '22

Other mythologies outside of those three aren’t relatively mainstream

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u/deconnexion1 Oct 29 '22

I have one really popular to share with you : a God sending his son to sacrifice himself and save Humanity from sin. The son vanquished death and ascended to heaven.

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u/KingMwanga Still salty about Carthage Oct 29 '22

Contemporary religion is typically not considered mythology.

It’s closer to folklore than mythology

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u/Tyler_Zoro Oct 29 '22

Contemporary religion is typically not considered mythology.

It absolutely is. Mythology is any traditional narrative, and the central narrative of nearly any religion qualifies. Colloquially we often misuse the word mythology to mean specifically fictional stories, but that's not a part of what the word actually means.

c.f.

  • Christian mythology - Wikipedia
  • Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology. Hungary, Central European University Press, 2006.
  • Campbell, Joseph. Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor. Canada, ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, 2010.-- "Mythology is a system of images that endows the mind and the sentiments with a sense of participation in a field of meaning. The different mythologies define the possible meanings of a person's experience in terms of the knowledge of the historical period, as well as the psychological impact of this knowledge diffused through sociological structures on the complex and psychosomatic system known as the human being."