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Folklorists often go further, defining myths as "tales believed as true, usually sacred, set in the distant past or other worlds or parts of the world, and with extra-human, inhuman, or heroic characters".

However, many scholars restrict the term "myth" to sacred stories. In its broadest academic sense, the word myth simply means a traditional story. This is a very general outline of some of the basic sacred stories with those themes.

Baltic ( Latvian - Lithuanian - Prussian)ĭepictions of episodes from Hindu mythologyĪcademic studies of mythology often define mythology as deeply valued stories that explain a society's existence and world order: those narratives of a society's creation, the society's origins and foundations, their god(s), their original heroes, mankind's connection to the "divine", and their narratives of eschatology (what happens in the "after-life").