Knowledge skills for Mythology

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by whswhs

Egyptian used to be rather widely known. And Hindu is worth considering, though Hinduism still has a very large number of adherents as a religion, so there are a lot of people who might take it amiss to call it "mythology."

Mythology is an ambiguous word. It can mean the form a story takes (in which case pretty much everyone has myths and their truthfulness is irrelevant to definition), or it can imply fictionality or more realistically untruth (arguably Homer had no concept of fiction though Virgil likely did).