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 (video game), a 1989 text adventure
- Myth (series), a series of real-time tactical computer games, including:
- 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 (1941–2012)
- 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
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