It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.
Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.
Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.