On the contrast of myth and legend there are some good remarks in Strauss, who quotes George’s Mythus und Sage for the explanation; also in the Westminster Review for April 1847 (p.
The mythus embodying itself in the facts of the gospel was the miniature of the process of universal nature.
This is practically the solution adopted by Wundt (Mythus und Religion, II, p.
That fable is fable andmythus mythus no one need now plume himself on informing us, provided he has nothing further to say.
The dialogue terminates with a mythus of a final judgment, in which there will be no more flattery or disguise, and no further use for the teaching of rhetoric.
Which is another way of saying that the Christian mythus is very similar to the pagan, and should therefore be equally true.
If we are to have any mythology at all, he seems to argue, why object to adding to it the mythus of Jesus?
But in no case of a primitive and genuine mythus are we to expect deliberate fiction or conscious symbolism, or, again, to seek for a discoverable substratum of solid fact.
While in the Greek mythus Zeus plays with mankind like a cat with a mouse, the Hebrew story does not explain the justice of that omnipotent Being who created man with capacity for error, and exposed him to temptation.
The solar foundation of the mythus is wholly valueless and unimportant--in other words, is alien to its essence, when compared with the moral import it acquired among the Greeks.
The persons of a poem or a mythuswere not subjected to critical analysis as we dissect the characters of Hamlet or of Faust.
Thus we find Thales brooding in thought upon the mythus of Oceanus, and arriving at the conception of water as the elementary principle of the universe; while Gaia, or Earth, in like manner is said to have stimulated Pherecydes.
In other words, it was impossible for him to change his point of view about this mythus in the same way as Euripides when he handled that of Helen according to two different versions.
What we know about the tale of Prometheus is but a faint echo of the mythus apprehended by the Greeks anterior to Hesiod, and handled afterwards by AEschylus.
It will be observed that Zeus throughout this tirade on justice is a different being from the Zeus in the mythus of Prometheus.
Moreover, the very conditions under which the mythus flourished tended to divert the minds of the Greeks themselves away from the underlying meaning to the romantic presentation.
One great mythus fascinated the imagination of Norsemen and Hindoos, Greek and Persian, German and Roman; interwove itself with their history; gave a form to their poetry; and assumed a prominent place in their religion.
Such is themythus of the Fall, as imagined by the early Greeks.
At this point something should be said about the mythus itself and about the position of the several persons at the commencement of the tragedy.
The scientific import of the mythus was never wholly forgotten by the Greeks.
The character of the hero throughout life, as that of the avenger of injustice and punisher of evil, must exhibit itself in the boy as the wild instinct of nature; and the mythus makes him kill his tutor Linus with a blow of the lyre.
The mythus concludes most nobly with the assumption of the hero into Olympus.
A very ingenious theory on the mythus of Hercules is given by Buttmann (Mythologus, vol.
He says-- “Various theories have been formed respecting the mythus of Hercules.
We may perceive, by the twelve tasks, that the astronomical theory was applied to the mythus of the hero, and that he was regarded as a personification of the Sun, which passes through the twelve signs of the Zodiac.
More true metal, rough from the Mimerstithy, than in many a famed Greek Mythus shaped far better!
Consider only their primary mythus of the Creation.
Sufficiently hast thou demonstrated this proposition, considerable or otherwise: That the Mythus of the Christian Religion looks not in the eighteenth century as it did in the eighth.
This is of the allegoric period, as we see, and half play, not of the prophetic and entirely devout: but as a mythus is there not real antique Norse gold in it?
And now, connected with this, let us glance at the last mythus of the appearance of Thor; and end there.
Poets of a Northern race would have brooded over this mythusuntil it became for them the form of all the anguish and revolt and aspiration of the soul of man.
That AEschylus should have frequently handled the subject-matter of the Iliad was natural; and many titles of tragedies, quoted singly, point to his preoccupation with the mythus of Achilles.
AEschylus determines at all hazards to exhibit the chosen mythus in its entirety, and to give full prominence to his religious idea.
The Christian mythus has been adequately set forth by his predecessors.
The mythus selected for treatment is developed with perfect fidelity, but also with regard to aesthetical effect.
Of course this kind of allegory is much coarser and affords less scope for poetical treatment than the exquisite mythus of the Clouds.
Rosenberg developed his ideas in the obscure phraseology of Der Mythusdes 20.
The Indian mythus expresses this by saying "they are born again.
But the Greek mythus was the reflection of a legend from the farther East, and came to this author more naturally through Judaism than through Paganism.
His Mythus is, therefore, a higher one, telling the story of the subjection of nature and of her Gods.
In the Vedic hymns we see this connection in the most explicit manner, and threads of the old Aryan Mythus can often be picked out in Homer.
It is one phase of the great Mythus of the Apocalypse, or the uncovering of the Future State, which in some form belongs to all peoples, and which springs from the very nature of human spirit.
Thus in general the Mythus shadows forth objective mind, not subjective; it springs from the imaginative Reason, and not from a cultivated Reflection.
Tragic and happy instances are brought before us--ideal forms taken from the ancient Mythus of Hellas, and begetting in later times a prodigious number of works of art, in poetry, sculpture and painting.
The Mythus of Evolution the tale of Proteus becomes in Goethe's hands, and hints of Darwinism long before Darwin.
But the Homeric man shows the opposite tendency: he had to translate his internal thoughts into the external shapes of the Mythus before he could grasp fully his own mind.
The great Mythus of Troy had run its course and exhausted itself; the age of imitation, formalism, erudition had come, while that of creation had passed away.
It is therefore, a significant fact that the education of the present time is seeking to restore the Mythus to its true place in the development of human spirit.
There is no mythus in Homer which has wound itself so deeply and so variously into the literature of the world.
The true Mythus gives in an image or event the events of all time; it is an ideal symbol which is realized in history.
Indeed the mythus has an inherent tendency to pitch over into allegory through culture.
The legend of Marsyas and the mythus of the Fall are companion pictures.
What may be called the mythus of the Sistine Chapel has at last been finally disproved, partly by the personal observations of Mr. Heath Wilson, and partly by the publication of Michael Angelo's correspondence.
A Greek or a Roman would have rejected this picture as false to the mythus of Mars and Venus; and whether Botticelli wished to be less descriptive than emblematic, might be fairly questioned.
The legend of the painter who kept his model on a cross in order that he might the more minutely represent the agonies of death by crucifixion, is but a mythus of the realistic method carried to its logical extremity.
More true metal, rough from the Mimer-stithy, than in many a famed Greek Mythus shaped far better!
Florence had no mythus similar to that which made Venice the Bride of the Sea, and which justified the Doge in hailing Caterina Cornaro as daughter of S.
A prince should know how to combine the natures of the man and of the beast; and this is the meaning of the mythus of Cheiron, who was made the tutor of Achilles.
Let us rather use the mythus as a parable of the ecstatic devotion which prompted the men of that age to discover a form of unimaginable beauty in the tomb of the classic world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mythus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
