Sentence examples for forms of myth from inspiring English sources

But many of these new poems also adopt the forms of myth, ballad and fable.

The farming and work songs and the early forms of myth and narrative poetry that had their basis in the abundant harvests of the New Stone Age were probably transmitted orally; it is difficult to find examples that have survived intact.

After examining the various forms of man's cultural expression, he concluded that man is essentially characterized by his unique ability to use the "symbolic forms" of myth, language, and science as a means of structuring his experiences and thereby understanding both himself and the world of nature.

Virtually every human society has some form of myth to explain the origin of morality.

It just might be that the director of "The Hurricane" felt it important to engage in one form of myth making to counter the longstanding presence of a far more virulent myth that was not just about the Rubin Carter story, but part of the legacy of all black men.

It was gradually acknowledged, by all except extreme fundamentalists, that the Genesis stories of the Creation and the Fall were representations of the deepest truths about man and the universe in the form of myth rather than history, and were none the less valid for that.

Having covered the issue of content, Socrates turns to the "style" ("lexis," 392c6), or as we might say, of the "form" of myth tellers or poets (Socrates again runs these two together).

The apparent safety and comfort of the Comfort Zone carries with it a form of myth similar to the Myth of Control and the Myth of Stability that we have been looking at the past few weeks.

Though not as long as the Mahabharata, the Ramayana contains a great deal of religious material in the form of myths, stories of great sages, and accounts of exemplary human behaviour.

Picasso has created his own universe, they point out, with his own race of human beings and his own forms of beasts, myths, and nature, and he has consciously imagined time and space in terms of his own compositions.

To McGill, these are all connected ― all various forms of mapping, of myth-making. .