8 sentences with “myths”

Many myths and legends revolve around the figure of the caiman in local culture.

Mythology is the study of the myths and legends that are passed down from generation to generation.

Greek gods and myths were shared by the Romans, and only the names of the gods were changed (e.g. Zeus became Jupiter, Aphrodite became Venus, Hades became Pluto, etc.).

Some beautiful artefacts and amazing myths and poems have survived from this civilisation, but it was also one of the most predatory civilisations we know of in ancient history.

Likewise, both Greek myths and epic tales are full of hostility and suspicion of assertive and intelligent women, celebrating instead women who dutifully served their husbands or fathers.

The Greek philosopher Aristotle was unimpressed by the myths explaining lightning in his time, the 4th century B.C., and held that it was an "exhalation" from the fiery sphere found in the lower regions of the sky.

In a major break with the past, Enlightenment thinkers increasingly asserted that there was a real physical universe that could be understood with the methods of science, in contrast to the false invented universe of "magic" suitable only for myths and storytelling.

He likes to test or disprove household myths: he once armed himself with a thermometer and a stopwatch, and set about blowing and puffing on spoonfuls of boiling water, to see if the soup really does cool like that. He concluded that it does cool, but not very much when it is thick.