Before reading the passages assigned, I had a drastically different perception of what mythology is. Before, I was under the guise that all myths were fictitious and ancient in origin. I never considered the notion of a modern myth or the idea that myths to be true. Stories that I considered to be myths, while not incorrect; were strictly limited to Greek, Roman, Egyptian and other ancient and factitious myths. I thought that to qualify as a myth, a story must be fictitious. Upon reading the texts, I soon found my previous assessment as to the identity of a myth was quickly corrected.
Among everything else, I learned how myths can be studied to provide on with insight about the ancient worlds. For example, Thury and Devinney analyze the myth