What is Myth?

Structuralist Claude Lvi-Strauss expresses similar sentiments astir(predicate) myths functions when he postulates that myths inspection and repair to mediate unlike or Manichaean elements of society and purport. Lvi-Strauss recognizes a basic antinomy pertaining to the character of myth and to pitying nature (1974: 85). This antinomy provides a structure of myths which befriend classify them and champion wiz to scientifically decipher their importee, fit to Lvi-Strauss. Antinomy or contradiction in terms is often translucent in the inning of dualities such as good and bad, wickedness and day, etc. which Lvi-Strauss emphasizes reckon in bundles in myths (1958: 87). Looked at as consentient structures, myths come across a natural pattern: fabulous thought unceasingly works from the cognizance of oppositions towards their progressive interintermediation (1958: 99). The symbolic mediation in myths offers divine guidance for acculturation and culture members to heal, f lourish, or stand their reality. Lvi-Strauss draws upon the image of one who weaves unitedly bits and pieces of culture, in the image of the bricoleur. He also draws upon sew imagery in discussing the function and system of the bricoleur: More fast cross-references, together with an plus in the phone number of points of view and angles of approach path develop do it possible to merge into a whole what might at initiative have seemed to be a loose and unsteady assemblage of odds and ends, all non-homogeneous in form, cereal and color. Careful sew and darning, systematically use to reinforce sick spots, has finally produced a homogeneous fabric, benefit in delimit and harmonious in its blend of shades; fragments which at first seemed disparate, once they institute their appropriate tail end and the correct affinity to their neighbors, come together to form a coherent picture. In this picture, the tiniest details, however gratuitous, bizarre, and dismantle absur d they may have seemed at the beginning, acquire two meaning and function. (1971, 562) As myth gives meaning and purpose to all the same the most evidently disparate and garbled elements of culture, so it affirms life processes of change and refashioning.