Not everything you don’t understand is a myth.
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I feel like myths are any attempts at all to understand; to translate something existing into an abstract, representative collection of symbols comprehensible by mind, which at a time are collectively agreed upon and then discarded upon the development of new representations.
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After the collection of explanations regarding existence 'expires', it begins to be considered a mythology; untrue or imaginary. It's important to note that e.g. in the middle ages in Europe, the church held a similar authority regarding the origins of life as science does today.
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It's curious to note that the the word "myth" is derived from the Greek word "mythos", meaning speech, thought, word, story or "anything delivered by word of mouth".