Greek mythology is the spiritual product of primitive clan society and the earliest literary form in Europe. It came into being in the 8th century BC, and it was based on the long-term oral spread of ancient Greek aborigines and referred to the myths spread to Greece and other countries.
Later, it was recorded in Homer's Epic Homer, hesiod's Divine Spectrum, ancient Greek poetry, drama, history, philosophy and other works. Later generations organized it into the present ancient Greek fairy tales, which are divided into two parts: the story of god and the legend of hero.
The earliest references are two of Homer's epics: Iliad and Odyssey. Other epics in this field are attributed to epic integration. There is a group of epics that either praise the gods or praise the deeds of the gods, which is called "Homer's Epic".
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Myth is created orally by the people's collective, which shows the pursuit of ideals and the worship, struggle, understanding and imagination of cultural phenomena. It belongs to the category of folk literature, which has high philosophical and artistic quality. For thousands of years, it has been the immortal creative source of literati and folk artists, and has a far-reaching impact on future generations.
Myth is not a scientific reflection of real life, but the result of human thinking and exploration of nature and their own imagination in ancient times.
Religion is a cultural phenomenon in the development of human society to a certain historical stage, which belongs to a special social ideology. In the old days, because of people's unknown exploration of nature and the pursuit of expressing people's desire for eternal liberation;
Furthermore, I believe that there are supernatural mysterious forces or entities outside the real world, which make people revere and worship this mystery, and thus produce a system of belief cognition and ritual activities. Like folk myths, they also have their own myths and legends, which are connected in series and are a spiritual sustenance.
Religious myth is a legend formed by absorbing mythical figures and events in the process of religious development, and it also belongs to a special ideological embodiment.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Greek Myth (One of the Western Mythological Systems)
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Myth (Explanation of Words)