Name: Dianne Joyce T.

Pacimos BSEd Social Studies Rating: ___________

Date: December 05, 2016 Assignment no: 002

1. Explain the nature, role and function of myth.

Myths are generally set in an overlapping world to the existing world or in a

faraway and inaccessible place, and they set or reflect cultural patterns and
rules. Myths, unlike legends and folk tales, involve the workings of the gods
or heroes who are closely related to the gods. Myths are also concerned with
the cosmology of a culture, while legends and folk tales are concerned with
everyday life. Sometimes, however, legends develop into myth. Nearly every
culture creates and passes on myths. These sacred tales seek to explain natural
mysteries with words, symbolically capturing and controlling them to
decrease their dangers. Mythologists have a number of different theories about
the origination of myths. Some think they are allegories or that gods and
heroes are personifications of natural forces like the ocean or wind. Others
believe they are stories used to justify cultural rituals, or that they are distorted
tales of actual historic events.

Myth is interpretation; myth is not purely a fictitious narrative. This is not the
correct idea of a myth; it is not pure fantasy as not giving us the truth. It is
necessarily tied up the truth. Myth confirms the truth.
Myth is found in almost every culture known to anthropological studies and
deals with human and cosmic beginnings.
Mythology as a pattern of thought, a symbolic expression, not in abstract form
but in concrete symbolic language. The reality it expresses in symbolic form
is some unknown transcendent reality, which lies beyond observation and
simple deduction but which is nonetheless recognized as existing and
operative, something metaphysical in approach.

The function of the repetition of the celestial archelife. (a) By associating
itself to the acts of Gods in bringing about something. (b) Thought
participation in the symbolism of the centre the centre of the world. For
example, all cities from whence they flow towards. Participating in the center,
which is short of an archetype to acquire their reality, confers meaning to
reality. (c) Profane gestures and rituals acquire meaning only as they repeat
acts posited in the beginning by the Gods of heroes or ancestors.

Myth was mans way of expressing abstract though. It is a form of poetry that
transcends poetry because it goes beyond imagery and proclaims truth.

a. Mention the characteristics of the era of world religion.

The characteristics of the era of world religion 1st Rationality and Intelligibility
of the universe, Reality is understandable. The mind is capable of understanding
reality. This supposes that reality is intelligible and man possesses it within
himself and understands what it is. It supposes that the world is true and
meaningful. Knowledge is the equation between mind and reality.
The second is Independence of moral order. This human world operates
according to certain laws which bring about happiness. The opposite brings about
disharmony. Men are experience a synderesis that is intellectual habitus or
disposition by which man in any given situation, as reason or spirit, is in
possession of the fundamental principles of morality.

The 3rd characteristic it is Free and responsible citizens participate in a

political community. Man is a responsible creature he creates society by
participating in it. In the words of Plato, the best man makes the best citizen.