why do people believe in myths that have to do with Greek mythology?
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It's kind of like fairy tales.  You can believe they happened if you want.  It's just Greek Mythology used to be religion to people.  So in a couple thousand years some of the religions that are popular today might be considered mythology.
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What's your question?  And why is this in mythology and folklore?
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Myths are old stories, passed down from generation to generation.  Obviously this leads to some of them being twisted and unrecogniseable from the original story.\n\nNo doubt, in a thousand years or so some of the things happening nowadays will be seen as myths.
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You should read Joseph Campbell's "The Power of Myth" and draw your own conclusion.\nFor example, there is a story in the Hindu religion about a baby who is put into the water to save him from harm and who is rescued by a princess.The same story is told of Moses in the Bible. You will learn that  there are many similar stories that appear in many different cultures.\n\nIf you'd rather you can buy the "Power of Myth" on video or borrow it from the library.
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I believe people explain things to the best of their knowledge, and the people in the past are no different. As a general rule, mythology has some connection to fact - even if it is a very slim link.\n\nLet's take for example the Centaur - a being that has the body of a horse, and the torso of a man where the horses head would be. Now, imagine if you will that you have no concept of saddlery and you see at a distance a man or group of men riding horses. Anyone knows that a well-trained rider on a horse can appear to be fluid, and accomplish some amazing feats, so at a distance it might seem that a four-legged beast with the torso of a man is maneuvering. So the beginnings of a myth are created, and are propagated by the retelling of this tale.\n\nConsider another example - Dragons. While the exact appearance of a dragon varies (Eastern vs Western, wyrms vs serpents), one common detail is large size. Now, despite the reluctance of the current government, it can be agreed that China is the site of amazing fossil remains, as are many other locations all over the world. Imagine that someone was to dig up large petrified bones, but had no concept of 'dinosaurs' or the theory of evolution. A peasant, a magistrate, a knight, a feudal lord - all might surmise that they are the bones of a large animal and where there is one large animal, there are others. Eastern mythology places Dragons as part of the Celestial Order, Western mythology sees them as the test of mettle and chivalric valour. Again, the tale is told to any who will listen and gains some credence in folklore.\n\nGranted, this is supposition on my part, and might be a grand example of pulling together some half-assed truths. Then again, people judge their world by their own experiences and knowledge. It is easy enough for 'errors' in the retelling of tales about foreign creatures or things found to accumulate over time. From here, a fact becomes a tall tale, and over an age become legend and then myth. \n\nBesides - you know how gullible some people are...   8)
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Because otherwise, every mythology discussion would turn into a religious debate!\n\nSeriously, though, religion and spirituality may have roots in mythology and there may be ties, but they are two separate things.  Religion and spirituality is about belief systems, higher powers, etc.  Mythology and folklore is Homer's Odyssey, ancient Egyptian myths and even more modern mythology...things of that nature.
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Because there are many people who don't follow the doctrines of your mythological book.\n\nJust like YOU don't follow the laws of Islam, or the Hebrew faith, or worship Zeus and Hercules.\n\nWhy are YOU so ignorant of other people's beliefs?\n\nThe bible is a book. It's a good book. But it is JUST a book.
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Probably because of Gaia (Greek goddess called Mother Earth):\nhttp://www.paleothea.com/SortaSingles/Gaia.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)\n\nYou should study mythology and folklore. Apart from being fascinating and interesting, alot of our concepts today are derived from mythology.
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MYTHOLOGY??? AND CREATURES????...........\n\nsorry but i hope my answer is correct!!\n\nbecause im just a kid!
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The beliefs of others are always viewed critically and found to be mythology, while one's own mythology is viewed as fact.\n\nWhat I like about the Hindu god is that you can't corner it, you can't trap it, you can't blaspheme against it because, well, because it's god. The Hindus have one of the highest concepts of god on the planet, and if people think it's stupid because there are cows involved then they simply lack the ability to understand what "infinite" means. That's why such people are limited to worshiping a finite anthropomorphic god made in their own image.
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Greek mythology consists in part in a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. These accounts were initially fashioned and disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition; our surviving sources of Greek mythology are literary reworkings of this oral tradition. Greek mythology was also reflected in artifacts, some of them works of art, notably the repertory of vase-painters. The Greeks themselves referred to the myths and associated artworks to throw light on cult practices and ritual traditions that were already ancient and, at times, poorly understood.\n\nThe span of stories and characters in Greek mythology ranges from the atrocities of the early gods to the brutal wars of Troy and Thebes, from the youthful pranks of Hermes to the heartfelt grief of Demeter for Persephone, all depicted in minute detail in a bewildering range of media. The cast of characters includes many gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, monsters, daemons, nymphs, satyrs, and centaurs.
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The Greek Creation Myth
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Gods and goddesses belong to an infinite class of ideas that are incapable of being proven or disproven.  It's just like primitive people believing that evil demons cause disease - We can show exactly how micro-organisms cause disease, we can produce treatments based on that knowledge which actually work, we can show that people who claim to treat disease in supernatural ways are actually frauds, but we can never *disprove* the idea that demons are involved.  All we can say is that there is no rational reason to believe it.  The same is true of gods - We can't prove they are just imaginary, but there's no rational reason to believe in them.
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There is a difference between belief and the practice of verifying things by observation. I'm not one to say that science can address every aspect of what it is to be human. We need art, and storytelling, and music, and things that don't lend themselves well to scientific explanations. I could describe for you the mathmatical relationships between notes in a symphony, but that would be somewhat missing the point.\n\nEvery society has stories that have been told through the ages about how the world came into existence. Humankind has had a need for mythology to explain things about the human experience that are beyond our understanding. Teach all of it. It's a part of being human. But recognize the difference between mythology, philosophy, religion, and science. We have for the most part given up using primitive belief systems as the basis for, say, medical treatments. In most cases there is an understanding that science does a better job of predicatably explaining what will happen with, say, food poisoning or small pox than any of the other systems of thought that I mentioned. Schizophrenia is a more enlightened explanation than demonic possession, and has more explanatory power.\n\nSo teach the belief systems, but don't teach them as science. Evolution is not a theory, it is the basis of modern biology. For decades, modern advances do nothing but support what was already known. There is no reason to revert to mythology to explain things that can be verified with evidence. Keep your faith, keep your beliefs, whatever they may be, but accept the world we live in and the understanding we have of how it works.
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Do you understand that this is the SCIENCE section? Where we deal in facts?\n\nDo you understand that you are discussing MYTHOLOGY/FANTASY? That this is has no factual basis?\n\nTry posting this over in the RELIGION or PHILOSOPHy or ARTS secton. You will get a better reposnse.
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Why do you suppose it's called mythology?
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I've mixed and matched. The Greek pantheon, the Celts and a few here and there that I've learned about. I think it's a matter of the subject - a God/Goddess will speak/reach out to you depending on what you are going through.\n\nOr you can be reading about many different Gods/Godesses and suddenly you are drawn to one even though it may be different from the pantheons you usually work with.\n\nI don't think it's a matter of who believe in as much as it matters that you believe.