Essays on Myths

In Greek Mythology, heroes play a vital role to give significance and purpose to a myth. Numerous heroes are still remembered for willingly helping the civilization or fulfilling their goal through the distinctive characteristics they obtain, making them appealing from other heroes. However, out of…

Bigfoot is one of the major cryptids of the New World. With around sixty years of exposure in the United States, it’s also one of the youngest of such legends. With very little definitive evidence on which to build a myth and even fewer appearances…

More than perhaps any other monster, the vampire tends to vary in appearance. The classic creatures from which the vampire legends came with often cadaverous, resembling more than zombie of modern fiction than anything else. That changed, though, with the introduction of Bram Stoker’s Dracula….

Every myth starts with a creator in the beginning of time. In the Greek culture there was a myth that talked about Prometheus, a titan who created the humans out of clay and stood up for his people. While in the Genesis there was God…

Myths have been around for thousands of years and they have been able to help man come up with explanations for events that otherwise there would be none. Myths are traditional stories passed down from generation to generation telling a story about some natural event…

Gardening is full of myths and old wives’ tales. Many are handed down through the generations and passed on in garden sheds and across allotments across the land. But should you add sugar to soil to sweeten tomatoes and will Vicks vapor rub keep bees…

There are many myths and facts that surround different racial and ethnic groups. However, the ones that I am the most familiar with are those that surround minorities. On a daily basis, these groups in particular are targeted both directly and indirectly by these myths…

Tongan myths carry some of the most amazing tales of love, war and dreams of vast untouched lands only reached by canoe. The supreme Polynesian god known as Tangaloa was said to have come down to the island of Tongatpu and chosen a beautiful Tongan…

There can be lots of different kinds of meanings that can explain myths. Myths are not a story of life’s meaning but are the ongoing search of life meaning. In today’s society myths can be misused of there proper interpretation. Our community uses fictional stories…

Greek and Roman mythology, what’s so fascinating about them? What made them last for so long and praised by a lot of people. These mythologies came even before the religions being practiced today. Greek mythology is older than Roman mythology; Greeks had this belief 1000…