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What forces generate myths? Royal Flush Robert Graves said of Greek myth: "True myth may be defined as the reduction to narrative shorthand of ritual mime performed on public festivals, and in many cases recorded pictorially." (The Greek Myths, Introduction). Graves was deeply influenced, perhaps too strongly, by Sir James George Frazer's mythography The Golden Bough, and he would have agreed that myth is generated by many cultural needs (more on the forces that generate myth is needed).

What human needs do myths satisfy? Myths authorize the cultural institutions of a tribe, a city, or a nation by connecting them with universal truths. Myths justify the current occupation of a territory by a people, for instance.

Mythology figures prominently in most religions, and most mythology is tied to at least one religion. Some use the words "myth" and "mythology" to portray the stories of one or more religions as false, or dubious at best. The term is most often used in Royal Flush this sense to describe religions founded by ancient societies, such as Roman mythology, Greek mythology, and Norse mythology, belief in which is nearly extinct. However, it is important to keep in mind that while some view the Norse and Celtic Royal Flush pantheons as mere fable, others hold them as a religion, though the modern versions of these beliefs usually have little to no resemblance to the Royal Flush originals (see Neopaganism). By extension, many people do not regard the tales surrounding the origin and development of religions like Christianity, Judaism and Islam as literal accounts of events, but Royal Flush instead regard them as figurative representations of their belief systems.

Some people, especially within revealed partypoker religions that are justified in terms of an authenticated scripture, may take offense at the characterization of any aspect of their faith as an expression of myth. An aspect of fundamentalism requires that every incidental element be accepted as literally true. However, most people partypoker concur that every religion has a body of myths that express deeper truths that are ineffable on the surface level.

For the purposes of this article, therefore, the online poker word mythology is used to refer to stories that, while they may or may not be strictly factual, reveal fundamental truths and insights about human nature, often through the use of archetypes. Also, the stories Royal Flush discussed express the viewpoints and beliefs of the country, time period, culture, and/or religion which gave birth to them. One can speak of a Jewish mythology, a Christian mythology, or an Islamic online poker mythology, in which Royal Flush one describes the mythic elements within these faiths without speaking to the veracity of the faith's tenets or claims about its history.

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