Myth (disambiguation)

In the broadest sense a myth can refer to any traditional story, although folklorists prefer to use the term to refer to a sacred narrative that validates a religious system. Normally, myth transpires outside or before human time. Mythic events within human history are often termed legends. Origin myths concern the origins of the world, and explain how the world and the creatures in it came to have their present form, whereas founding myths (Greek aition) are the etiological myths that explain and justify the origins of a ritual or the founding of a city. A political myth can represent a particular interpretation of a historical experience or policy, or some acknowledged historical antecedents, invoked in the present to justify a certain policy.

Mythology denotes a body of myths or their study.

Myth may also refer to:

• A commonly-held but false belief or a popular conception about a real person or event which distorts, exaggerates or idealizes reality, see urban legend
• Myth (computer game series), a series of real-time tactical computer games
• The Myth (film), a film starring Jackie Chan
• Myth (warez), an underground PC game cracking group
• Myth: History in the Making, a platform game by System 3
• Myth: The Xenogears Orchestral Album, an album by Yasunori Mitsuda
• MythTV, an open source software project
• Sergio Oliva, Cuban bodybuilder, nicknamed The Myth

See also

• Mythology (disambiguation)
• Mythos (disambiguation)
• MythAdventures
• MythBusters
• MythQuest
• Mythopoeic (disambiguation)
• Myths

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