Myths The various complexes of stories about the gods are called myths. What people first think of when they hear the word "myth" is "false story", for they no longer believe in most of them. But there is another side, one that should not be overlooked: myths arise from the human belief that reality is intelligible. Myths are invented and accepted by people because they just do not settle for the experiencing things but want to discover the sense of things. Around the world, people tell stories of how the world came about, where they came from, why there is evil and death, why there are laws, why they is a summer, even why are turtles so slow. Some stories are so simple as to be brief folk tales. Others are grand myths tying together many aspects of life. All of them are a result of human intelligence beginning to make sense of things in the face of mystery, in however a stumbling way....

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