I mean, sure, George Washington chopping down the cherry tree has much less cultural relevance than Spider-Man (although not ZERO relevance, looking at the success of stuff like Hamilton)
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It's worth noting that many specific written works through which we get our knowledge of mythology are not, in and of themselves, "the myth" Oedipus Rex by Sophocles is not in and of itself the myth of Oedipus, it's a play *about* the myth
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So our discussion of this gets confused Like, no, I don't think Sophocles was doing something fundamentally different when he wrote a play as when someone writes a Batman screenplay
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Yes. Folklorists define myth, roughly, as narratives that take place outside of historic space/time, usually involving divine characters, *that some people somewhere believe(d) to be true.* literally nobody anytime has ever believed that Spider-Man existed.
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I remember reading Scalzi saying he thought of mythology as the residue of dead belief systems* and reacting very strongly to this because of the ~billion Hindus in the world.
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*paraphrasing vague memory here.
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