Myth is part of a cloud of related concepts, each with a huge academic literature. As a first approximation, I think of them as arranged in two fuzzy and intersecting layers, with the lower-level concepts aggregating into the higher-level ones.
Very roughly, I think of each concept at the higher layer being built up out of instances of the concept at the corresponding lower layer.
Higher
- Social imaginary
- Belief system
- Paradigm
- Worldview
- Ideology
Lower
- Myth
- Belief
- Theory
- Mind-set
- Philosophy
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