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Why Myths are immortal ?
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To help understanding the magic of myths, you will find - below - a quotation of a famous writer :
 Mircea Eliade, ![[ : Gallimard, collection folio essais, 1989, page 11]](/media/gifs/livre.gif) Aspects du mythe
| | Beginning more than one half-century ago, the Western scientists have redefined the study of myths. They have adopted a new standpoint which contrasted considerably with that of the XIXth century. Instead of using, as their predecessors had done, the myth in the usual acceptance of the term, i.e. as "a fable", " an invention", "a fiction", they accepted it in the meaning it bore in the archaïc societies. In this acceptation, the myth has the contrary meaning of a "true story" which is understood as highly valuable because sacred, exemplary and significant. However, this new semantic value granted to the term "myth" gives an ambiguous connotation to its use in the ordinary language. Indeed, the word "myth" is also used today ain the meaning - familiar especially to ethnologists, sociologists and historians specialized in the study of religions - of "a sacred tradition, aparamount revelation, an exemplary model". |
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