Myths and Religion

Myths and Religion

Given what we know about "how," and the "why" of myths. When does it become real or one's beliefs? When does it become as plain as a cup of water? Where you can see that there is water in the cup and nothing else. Magic is only a form of trickery or illusional bends in the truth. Religion on the other hand becomes something stronger in that most of us are brought up believing something passed down from our parents whom most likely were also passed down by their parents too. That is almost an imbedded thing with out or own control. I certainly couldn't stop my parents from baptizing me into the Catholic Church. Now something I can regulate and make my own decision is that of magic.

"From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; false are magic." (Frazer, p. 57) I can learn through a hypothesis of my own on "how" that has occurred. I don't need some myth or legend telling me why something has seemed to cut in half. This is all have become a game of angles, and numbers to deceive the eye. This is the false of the end product of the search of mans truth. These others become a myth in their own right, because they can't be solved and man always needs an explanation on how things have become the way they are. For an example mans early but still fascination on how the earth became and what lived here so many years ago. Of course many great minds have come up with many hypothesis on the how to these questions, but Religion has given man the "true" answer to all their wild questions.

"By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life." (Frazer, p. 58) This is broken down into two elements the practical and the theoretical.