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Author: LordGro

Jun 17th 2013 at 12:54:02 PM

@surgoshan: Why shouldn't myth be a genre? It is not merely a 'style'. You can't turn a DetectiveDrama or a RomanceNovel into a Myth, try as you might.

I agree with the rest of your post, but do you suggest any changes to the description? Everything you say in the last paragraph is mentioned in the draft, more or less.

EDIT: I went over the description and did some shortenings and re-arrangement. It is still too long for my taste, though. Some of it (the "Because myths have a large number of authors etc" paragraph specifically) could go to {{Mythology}} instead.

Also, not to appear as a nitpick, I removed "and science" from the enumeration "human reasoning, first-hand experience and science". All science is supposed to be based on reasoning and experience, so this is covered in the first two positions in my book.

I am almost in favor of removing "Primordial State Myth" and "Savior Myth" from the list. These two sound very much as concepts taken straight away from Christianity, repectively Abrahamitic monotheism. I doubt that these are kinds of myths found in very many mythologies, and thus they may be too specific to deserve a mention here. The description should present the basics in a concise way, so I'd rather omit what is not really typical.

And I'm not really sure how Myth relates to JustSoStory. Isn't that what a myth is, a non-humorous JustSoStory?