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An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world. Creation myths are a type of origin myth narrating the formation of the universe. However, numerous cultures have stories that take place after the initial origin. These stories aim to explain the origins of natural phenomena or human ...
Nov 16, 2021 · Generally speaking, aetiology is firmly wedded to origin myths, traditional stories that typically tell us of the three stages of creation: theogony, cosmogony and anthropogony. 9 These tales of birth, creation and epiphany are especially suited to aetiology because they are situated in a time that is ancient enough to ‘fit the requirement’ of being categorically different, and because ...
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Aetiological (sometimes spelled etiological) myths explain the reason why something is the way it is today. The word aetiological is from the Greek word aetion(αἴτιον), meaning “reason” or “explanation”. Please note that the reasons given in an aetiological myth are NOT the real (or scientific) reasons. They are explanations that have meaning for u...
Historical myths are told about a historical event, and they help keep the memory of that event alive. Ironically, in historical myths, the accuracy is lost but meaning is gained. The myths about the Trojan War, including the Iliad and the Odyssey, could be classified as historical myths. The Trojan War did occur, but the famous characters that we ...
Psychological myths try to explain why we feel and act the way we do. A psychological myth is different from an aetiological myth because a psychological myth does not try to explain one thing by way of something else (like explaining lightning and thunder with Zeus’ anger does). In a psychological myth, the emotion itself is seen as a divine force...
Etiology (/ ˌiːtiˈɒlədʒi /; alternatively spelled aetiology or ætiology) is the study of causation or origination. The word is derived from the Greek word αἰτιολογία (aitiología), meaning "giving a reason for" (from αἰτία (aitía) 'cause' and -λογία (-logía) 'study of'). [1] More completely, etiology is the study ...
Aetiology in Myth and Science: From Religion to Research 6 Resistance to Origins Cult Foundation in the Myths of Dionysus, Apollo, and Demeter 125 Susanne Gödde 7 Beginning with Hermes Promoting Hermeticism through Aetiology in Corpus Hermeticum 1 149 Sean E. McGrath 8 The Aetiology of Myth 164 Hugo Koning 9 Patroclus was a Parasite
Nov 16, 2021 · Aetiological myths often clearly do not aim at the acquisition or presentation of exact and accurate knowledge of the past in the way that modern scientific (or even historical) enquiry does. 13 The fact that an ironic poet like Callimachus claims that this knowledge is exactly what aetiology is really about, should tell us enough. 14
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This book explores aetiology as a tool for thinking, and draws attention to the paradoxical structure of origin stories. Aetiologies reduce complex ambivalence and plurality to plainly causal and temporal relations, but at the same time, by casting an anchor into the past, they open doors to progress and innovation.
