"American civil religion" is definitely a thing, even among some people who are militantly "anti-religious"
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A mythology isn't like that It's something you just inherit, as part of your connection to a real life community As such by its nature it's the kind of thing that's old fashioned and uncool and dying out, and being replaced with fiction, which is not the same
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And this distinction and transition matters We do not relate to fiction the way we do mythology and someone whose life is heavily affected by the consumption of fiction is different than someone whose life is heavily affected by mythology I'm not saying it's bad, it just is
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This was also true of actual myth though, Hercules in Roman telling is different to the Greek equivalent. Egyptian mythology is also really incoherent as a whole because it was initially far more localised. A lot of European myth had Christian stuff soldered on.
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And there's a fair bit of evidence that a lot of the modern mythology we look at was even more 'canon-mutable' as oral tradition. Because the literal tales are often subordinate to the purpose of their telling (and sometimes that purpose also changed).
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