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    According to Mircea Eliade, myths narrate a sacred history that took place at the beginning of time and serve as a pattern for human behavior. Myths reveal a sacred truth about the origins of the world and of human culture, providing explanations for natural phenomena and establishing models for human activities and rituals. Creation stories and myths from different cultures often address similar themes like cosmogony, the origins of gender roles and social structures, and cultural heroes who established key rituals and customs.

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    According to Mircea Eliade, myths narrate a sacred history that took place at the beginning of time and serve as a pattern for human behavior. Myths reveal a sacred truth about the origins of the world and of human culture, providing explanations for natural phenomena and establishing models for human activities and rituals. Creation stories and myths from different cultures often address similar themes like cosmogony, the origins of gender roles and social structures, and cultural heroes who established key rituals and customs.

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    According to Mircea Eliade, myths narrate a sacred history that took place at the beginning of time and serve as a pattern for human behavior. Myths reveal a sacred truth about the origins of the world and of human culture, providing explanations for natural phenomena and establishing models for human activities and rituals. Creation stories and myths from different cultures often address similar themes like cosmogony, the origins of gender roles and social structures, and cultural heroes who established key rituals and customs.

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    Myth according to Mircea

    Eliade:
    Myths, Dreams, and
    Mysteries: The Encounter
    Between Contemporary
    Faiths and Archaic
    Realities (1957)

    Eliade:
    (A

    myth) narrates a sacred history; that


    is, a transhuman revelation which took
    place at the dawn of the Great Time, in
    the holy time of the beginnings ( in illo
    tempore). Being real and sacred, the
    myth becomes exemplary, and
    consequently repeatable, for it serves
    as a model, and by the same token as a
    justification, for all human actions.

    Eliade (cont).
    In

    other words, a myth is a true


    history or what came to pass at the
    beginning of time, and one which
    provides the pattern for human
    behavior

    Creation Stories / Myths

    Origins

    Cosmogony
    Phenomenolology
    Gender Roles
    Social Mores (taboos)
    Social Ritual

    Cultural Hero Stories


    Aspects of above

    Historical Narratives
    Migration

    Trickster Stories
    Marginalization, taboo, boundaries, special social roles

    Two Varieties of Native


    American Creation Stories:
    Emergence
    Earth

    Story

    Diver Story

    Zuni Story
    Power

    of Four
    Cosmogony (environment / land)
    Repetition
    Phenomenology
    Ritual Practice
    Migration
    Social Mores

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