Mythology

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come from? How did humanity originate? Why is there evil in the world? What happens to people after they die? Myths also try to account for a society�s customs and rituals. Myths are used to justify the way a society lives.
Ruling families in several ancient civilizations found justification for their power in myths that described their origin in the world of the gods or in heaven. Myths did not originate in written form. They developed slowly as an oral tradition that was handed down form generation to generation among people who were trying to make sense of the world around them. They tried to imagine how it could have come into being in the first place. In the Greek city-states cults centering around the worship of a particular god developed very early.
The legends of ancient Greece are more familiar because they have become so
permanently set in literary traditions of western civilization. Greek mythology followed the pattern other mythologies: the forces of nature ...

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