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Mythology (gr. μυθολογία from μῦθος — "the legend", "legend" and λόγος "word", "story", "doctrine") — a special form of human consciousness, a way of preserving traditions in a changing reality. Includes folk tales (myths, epics, etc.).

Mythology differs from folklore: myth is a set of ideas about the world, accepted by the bearer of mythological consciousness for real and unquestionable knowledge, unlike folklore, which is not obliged to be perceived as something truthful and life-like. Folklore is an artistic and aesthetic representation of the world and, being a kind of creation of mythology, it retains certain of its features, but does not become equal to it.

Some features of mythological thinking are preserved in the mass consciousness along with elements of philosophical and scientific knowledge, strict scientific logic. Under certain conditions, mass consciousness can serve as a ground for the spread of a "social" ("political") myth. Thus, German Nazism revived and used the ancient Germanic pagan mythology and at the same time created a variety of myths – racial, etc. In general, however, mythology as a stage of public consciousness has historically outlived itself.

Attempts at a rational approach to mythology were made in Antiquity, and the allegorical interpretation of myths prevailed (among sophists, Stoics, Pythagoreans). Plato contrasted mythology in the popular understanding with its philosophical and symbolic interpretation. Euhemerus (4th-3rd centuries BC) saw in mythical images the deification of real historical figures, marking the beginning of the "euhemeric" interpretation of myths, which was widespread later. Medieval Christian theologians discredited ancient mythology; The Renaissance humanists revived their interest in it, who saw in myths the expression of feelings and passions of a liberating and self-aware personality.

The emergence of comparative mythology was associated with the discovery of America and acquaintance with the culture of American Indians (J.F. Lafito). In Vico's philosophy, which potentially contained almost all subsequent directions in the study of mythology, the peculiarity of the "divine poetry" of myth is associated with special forms of thinking (comparable to the psychology of a child), which are characterized by concreteness, physicality, emotionality, anthropomorphization of the world and its constituent elements. Figures of the French Enlightenment (B. Fontenelle, Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, etc.) considered mythology as a superstition, a product of ignorance and deception. The transitional stage from the enlightenment view to the romantic one was formed by the concept of Herder, who interpreted mythology as the poetic wealth and wisdom of the people. The romantic tradition, completed by Schelling, interpreted mythology as an aesthetic phenomenon occupying an intermediate position between nature and art. The main meaning of the romantic philosophy of myth was to replace the allegorical interpretation with a symbolic one.

In the 2nd half of the 19th century, two main schools of the study of mythology opposed each other. The first of them was based on the achievements of comparative historical linguistics and developed the linguistic concept of myth (A.Kuhn, V.Schwartz, V.Manhardt, M.Muller, F.I.Buslaev, A.N.Afanasyev, A.A.Potebnya, etc.). According to Muller's views, primitive man designated abstract concepts through concrete signs by means of metaphorical epithets, and when the original meaning of the latter was forgotten or obscured, due to semantic shifts, a myth arose (interpretation myth as a "disease of the language"). Subsequently, this concept was recognized as untenable, but the experience of using language to reconstruct the myth itself was very productive. The second school – anthropological, or evolutionist - was formed in Great Britain as a result of the first scientific steps of comparative ethnography. Mythology was elevated to animism, i.e., to the idea of the soul that arises in the "savage" from reflections on death, dreams, diseases, and was identified with a kind of primitive science; with the development of culture, mythology becomes nothing more than a relic, losing its independent meaning. A serious rethinking of this theory was proposed by J. Fraser, who interpreted the myth not as a conscious attempt to explain the surrounding world, but as a cast of a magical ritual. Fraser's ritualistic concept was developed by the Cambridge School of Classical Philology (D.Harrison, F.Cornford, A.Cook, G. Murray ), and in the 1930s and 40s the ritualistic school took a dominant position (S. Hook, T. Tester, E. James, etc.), but its extremes provoked fair criticism (K.Klakhon, W.Bascom, V. Greenway, J.Fontenrose, K.Levi-StraussC.Levi-Strauss ). The English ethnographer B. Malinovsky laid the foundation of the functional school in ethnology, attributing to the myth, first of all, the practical functions of maintaining tradition and continuity of tribal culture. Representatives of the French sociological school (E.Durkheim, L. Levy-Bruhl ) paid attention to the modeling of the peculiarities of the generic organization in mythology. Subsequently, the study of mythology shifted to the field of the specifics of mythological thinking. Levi-Bruhl considered primitive thinking to be "pre-logical", i.e. thinking in which collective ideas serve as an object of faith and are imperative. He referred to the "mechanisms" of mythological thinking as non-compliance with the logical law of the excluded third (objects can be both themselves and something else at the same time), the law of participation (mystical participation of a totemic group and an object, phenomenon), the heterogeneity of space, the qualitative nature of ideas about time, etc.

The symbolic theory of myth, developed by E. KassirerCassirer, deepened the understanding of the intellectual uniqueness of myth as an autonomous symbolic form of culture that models the world in a special way. V.W. Wundt's works emphasized the role of affective states and dreams in the genesis of myth. This line of interpretation is continued by Z.S. Freud and his followers, who saw in the myth the expression of unconscious mental complexes. According to C.G.Jung's point of view, various manifestations of human fantasy (myth, poetry, dreams) they are associated with collective-subconscious myth-like symbols - the so-called archetypes. These primary images of collective fantasy act as "categories" that organize external representations. Jung also had a tendency to excessively psychologize the myth and expand its understanding to the product of imagination in general. The structuralist theory of the myth of Levi-Strauss, without denying the concreteness and metaphoricity of mythological thinking, asserted at the same time its ability to generalize, classify and logical analysis; to clarify these procedures, the structural method was used. Levi-Strauss saw the myth as a logical tool for resolving fundamental contradictions through mediation - replacing the fundamental opposite with milder opposites.

In Russian science, the study of mythology went mainly along two channels: the work of ethnographers and the research of philologists - mainly "classics", as well as semiotic linguists who turned to mythology when developing problems of semantics. The main object of ethnographers' research (works by V.G.Bogoraz, L.Ya.Steinberg, A.M.Zolotarev, S.A.Tokarev, A.F.Anisimov, B.I.Sharevskaya, etc.) is the correlation of mythology and religion, as well as the reflection in religious myths of industrial practice and social organization. A.F.Losev noted the coincidence in the myth of a common idea and a sensual image, the inseparability of the ideal and the material. In the 1920s and 30s, the works of I.M. Tronsky, I.IL.N. Tolstoy, and others developed the problems of ancient mythology in relation to folklore. M.M.Bakhtin showed that folk carnival (ancient and medieval) culture served as an intermediate link between ritual primitive culture and fiction. The core of the research of linguists-structuralists V.V.Ivanov and V.I.Toporov are the experiments of reconstruction of ancient Balto-Slavic and Indo-European mythological semantics by means of modern semiotics. Methods of semiotics are used in the works of E.M.Meletinsky on the general theory of myth.

Mythology differs from folklore: myth is a set of ideas about the world, accepted by the bearer of mythological consciousness for real and unquestionable knowledge, unlike folklore, which is not obliged to be perceived as something truthful and life-like. Folklore is an artistic and aesthetic representation of the world and, being a kind of creation of mythology, it retains certain of its features, but does not become equal to it.

From Benjamin Franklin To Tesla Motors

When we flip on a switch, we get electricity instantly and our lights turn on almost like magic but behind this everyday convenience of life is a rich and varied history. It has been a journey of almost 270 years and counting every since electricity was discovered by Benjamin Franklin to the modern inventions we have today from electric cars zooming around to computers being charged by light (Li-Fi technology)!

The Discovery Of Electricity By The Discovery Of Electricity By Benjamin Franklin

The World’s First Current & Electric Motor By Faraday

The World’s First Current & Electric Motor By Faraday

Thomas Edison: The Invention Of The Light Bulb: The Invention Of The Light Bulb

The World’s First Modern Power Grid

The World’s First Modern Power Grid

The Shift To Alternative & Renewable Energies

The Shift To Alternative & Renewable Energies

Source: Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

The greatest of the Olympian gods, and the father of gods and men, was a son of Cronus and Rhea, a brother of Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, and at the same time married to his sister Hera. When Zeus and his brothers distributed among themselves the government of the world by lot, Poseidon obtained the sea, Hades the lower world, and Zeus the heavens and the upper regions, but the earth became common to all.

Later mythologers enumerate three Zeus in their genealogies: two Arcadian ones and one Cretan; and the first is said to be a son of Aether, the second of Coelus, and the third of Saturn. This accounts for the fact that some writers use the name of the king of heaven who sends dew, rain, snow, thunder, and lightning for heaven itself in its physical sense.

According to the Homeric account Zeus, like the other Olympian gods, dwelt on Mount Olympus in Thessaly, which was believed to penetrate with its lofty summit into heaven itself. He is called the father of gods and men,the most high and powerful among the immortals, whom all others obey. He is the highest ruler, who with his counsel manages every thing, the founder of kingly power, of law and of order, whence Dike, Themis and Nemesis are his assistants.

He was married to Hera, by whom he had two sons, Ares and Hephaestus, and one daughter, Hebe. Hera sometimes acts as an independent divinity, she is ambitious and rebels against her lord, but she is nevertheless inferior to him, and is punished for her opposition; his amours with other goddesses or mortal women are not concealed from her, though they generally rouse her jealousy and revenge. During the Trojan war, Zeus, at the request of Thetis favored the Trojans, until Agamemnon made good the wrong he had done to Achilles.

Hesiod also calls Zeus the son of Cronus and Rhea, and the brother of Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon. Cronus swallowed his children immediately after their birth, but when Rhea was near giving birth to Zeus, she applied to Uranus and Gaea for advice as to how the child might be saved. Before the hour of birth came, Uranus and Gaea sent Rhea to Lyctos in Crete, requesting her to bring up her child there. Rhea accordingly concealed her infant in a cave of Mount Aegaeon, and gave to Cronus a stone wrapped up in cloth, which he swallowed in the belief that it was his son. Other traditions state that Zeus was born and brought up on Mount Dicte or Ida (also the Trojan Ida), Ithome in Messenia, Thebes in Boeotia, Aegion in Achaea, or Olenos in Aetolia. According to the common account, however, Zeus grew up in Crete. As Rhea is sometimes identified with Gaea, Zeus is also called a son of Gaea.

In the meantime Cronus by a cunning device of Gaea or Metis was made to bring up the children he had swallowed, and first of all the stone, which was afterwards set up by Zeus at Delphi. The young god now delivered the Cyclopes from the bonds with which they had been fettered by Cronus, and they in their gratitude provided him with thunder and lightning. On the advice of Gaea, Zeus also liberated the hundred-armed Hecatonchires — Briareus, Cottus, and Gyges — that they might assist him in his fight against the Titans. The Titans were conquered and shut up in Tartarus, where they were henceforth guarded by the Hecatonchires. Thereupon Tartarus and Gaea begot Typhon, who began a fearful struggle with Zeus, but was conquered.

Zeus now obtained the dominion of the world, and chose Metis for his wife. When she was pregnant with Athena, he took the child out of her body and concealed it in his own, on the advice of Uranus and Gaea, who told him that thereby he would retain the supremacy of the world. If Metis had given birth to a son, this son (so fate had ordained it) would have acquired the sovereignty. After this Zeus, by his second wife Themis, became the father of the Horae and Moirae; of the Charites by Eurynome, of Persephone by Demeter, of the Muses by Mnemosyne of Apollo and Artemis by Leto, and of Hebe, Ares, and Eileithyia by Hera. Athena was born out of the head of Zeus; while Hera, on the other hand, gave birth to Hephaestus without the co-operation of Zeus.

The family of the Cronidae accordingly embraces the twelve great gods of Olympus: Zeus (the head of them all), Poseidon, Apollo, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, and Artemis. These twelve Olympian gods, who in some places were worshiped as a body, as at Athens, were recognized not only by the Greeks, but were adopted also by the Romans, who, in particular, identified their Jupiter with the Greek Zeus.

1. The Arcadian Zeus was born, according to the legends of the country, in Arcadia, either on Mount Parrhasion, or in a district of Mount Lycaeon, which was called Cretea. He was brought up there by the nymphs Theisoa, Neda, and Hagno; the first of these gave her name to an Arcadian town, the second to a river, and the third to a well.Lycaonwell. Lycaon, a son of Pelasgus, who built the first and most ancient town of Lycosura, called Zeus Lycaeus, and erected a temple and instituted the festival of the Lyceia in honor of him; he further offered to him bloody sacrifices, and among others his own son, in consequence of which he was metamorphosed into a wolf (lykos).No one was allowed to enter the sanctuary of Zeus Lycaeus on Mount Lycaeon, and there was a belief that, if any one entered it, he died within twelve months after, and that in it neither human beings nor animals cast a shadow. Those who entered it intentionally were stoned to death, unless they escaped by flight; and those who had got in by accident were sent to Eleutherae. On the highest summit of Lycaeon, there was an altar of Zeus, in front of which, towards the east, there were two pillars bearing golden eagles. The sacrifices offered there were kept secret.

2. The Dodonaean Zeus possessed the most ancient oracle in Greece, at Dodona in Epeirus, near Mount Tomarus (Tmarus or Tomurus), from which he derived his name. At Dodona Zeus was mainly a prophetic god, and the oak tree was sacred to him; but there too he was said to have been reared by the Dodonaean nymphs.

3. The Cretan Zeus. We have already given the account of him which is contained in the Theogony of Hesiod. He is the god, to whom Rhea, concealed from Cronus, gave birth in a cave of Mount Dicte, and whom she entrusted to the Curetes and the nymphs Adrasteia and Ide, the daughters of Melisseus. They fed him with milk of the goat Amalthea and the bees of the mountain provided him with honey.Cretehoney. Crete is called the island or nurse of the great Zeus, and his worship there appears to have been very ancient.Among the places in the island which were particularly sacred to the god, we must mention the district about Mount Ida, especially Cnosus, which was said to have been built by the Curetes, and where Minos had ruled and conversed with Zeus; Gortyn, where the god, in the form of a bull, landed when he had carried off Europa from Phoenicia, and where he was worshiped under the surname of Hecatombaeus; further the towns about Mount Dicte, as Lyctos, Praesos, Hierapytna, Biennos, Eleuthernae and Oaxus.

4. The national Hellenic Zeus, near whose temple at Olympia in Elis, the great national panegyris was celebrated every fifth year. There too Zeus was regarded as the father and king of gods and men, and as the supreme god of the Hellenic nation. His statue there was executed by Phidias, a few years before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war, the majestic and sublime idea for this statue having been suggested to the artist by the words of Homer. According to the traditions of Elis, Cronus was the first ruler of the country, and in the golden age there was a temple dedicated to him at Olympia. Rhea, it is further said, entrusted the infant Zeus to the Idaean Dactyls, who were also called Curetes, and had come from Mount Ida in Crete to Elis. Heracles, one of them, contended with his brother Dactyls in a footrace, and adorned the victor with a wreath of olive. In this manner he is said to have founded the Olympian games, and Zeus to have contended with Cronus for the kingdom of Elis.

Sourse: Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

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Sourse: Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

Sourse: Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.