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Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society. For scholars, this is totally different from the ordinary sense of the term myth, meaning a belief that is not true, as the veracity of a piece of folklore is entirely irrelevant to determining whether it constitutes a myth.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myth | is a | genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society | 0.90 | text |
| Myth | is a | form of understanding and telling stories that are connected to power | 0.90 | text |
| Myth | is a | opposite | 0.90 | text |
| legend | instance of | myth is often thought to differ from genres | 0.80 | text |
| folktale in that neither are considered to be sacred narratives | instance of | myth is often thought to differ from genres | 0.80 | text |
| giants | instance of | their divine characters recast as either as humans or demihumans | 0.80 | text |
| elves | instance of | their divine characters recast as either as humans or demihumans | 0.80 | text |
| faeries | instance of | their divine characters recast as either as humans or demihumans | 0.80 | text |
| Plutarch | instance of | writers | 0.80 | text |
| Porphyry | instance of | writers | 0.80 | text |
| Proclus | instance of | writers | 0.80 | text |
| Olympiodorus | instance of | writers | 0.80 | text |
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