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How is the word myth used popularly? For example, what does the statement, “It’s a myth” mean? In contrast, how is the word myth used in the academic context? Do not try answering this question without using material from your reading. After considering the definition in your textbooks and course materials, write a definition in your own words.

The word myth is used for lying or jinx. For example, people often throw salt, or pepper over their shoulder to avoid bad luck, and they called that act as myth. However, the word myth in the academic context is defined to study of fundamental question for human history. For example, how did the universe and the world come to be? How did we come to be here? Who are we? What are our proper, necessary, or inescapable roles as we relate to one another and to world at large? In my own definition of word myth is that it is study of who the human being had been evolved from the certain kind of situations or events and became how we are today. Also, by studying myth, we can be ready for the future events. For instance, when studying society, people often say ancient Rome, which is good model of success, and failure.

Why do myths from different cultures around the world address such similar or universal themes? Think about how myths explain the unknown and the tribulations of mankind.

I think people shared somewhat similar myths because even with different cultures and different way of their life, people still have similar problem or similar way of communicate with others. Most of the myth is came from the war, which makes people fight, or communicate with one another. The war makes tribulations of a culture, and from the tribulation, there are always a hero, which every culture have one like Alexander. As the time goes, people would talk about their hero as how they want their hero to be, which every people think similarly. For example, every hero from different cultures are known to be strong, smart, and somewhat good looking. That is what people want their hero to be to make them think they are better than other culture, or other countries by having better hero.

What is the relationship between belief, knowledge, mythology, and religion? Where do mythology and religion intersect? Where do they diverge? Think about the function of myth and religion in helping human beings cope with change, suffering, loss, and death.

I think the relationship between belief, knowledge, mythology and religion are very similar but slightly different. When people believe in something, they tends to know everything about what they believe, but can be wrong. The best example is religion. People believe in their god, and they have knowledge of what they believe, which makes the mythology of their culture, those four words are connected each other by people. But it is also different when one belief, one knowledge, one mythology, one religion gets failed. For example, in the past, people believed that the earth is flat and at the end of the earth, there will be a hell or downfall. They killed or control people who did not believe in same way as they are because the person is against the religion. But this belief, and mythology was failed, after a human being found out that the earth is rounded.

How would you defend mythology’s relevance in contemporary culture? Think about familial and cultural traditions. Also, consider how mythology is used in the arts and in advertising to typify human experience.

In this contemporary culture, the mythology is effected, because there are different cultures and it is living with other different cultures. The culture is different defending whatever myth that they had in their culture. People in this world are more open to other culture and try to understand with others. Through the process of understanding different culture, people try to know different mythology with other culture. Also, it involves art, for example, in Europe, there were lots of catholic church, and people still go to Europe to see the art work at Catholic church. In Korea, people are still trying to find the art work from the past which Japanese had take during the war. This makes Korean people gets stereotype about Japanese people.