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To: Hugh the Scot

Right.

Merriam Webster dictionary.

Definition of myth
1a : a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon

The events are not PROVEn yet. Hence myth.


39 posted on 10/25/2019 5:40:18 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Kozak
"History and Etymology for myth: earlier mythos, mythus, borrowed from Greek mŷthos "utterance, speech, discourse, tale, narrative, fiction, legend," of obscure origin" Same source.
45 posted on 10/26/2019 5:15:22 AM PDT by Hugh the Scot (I won`t be wronged. I won`t be insulted. I won`t be laid a hand on. - John Bernard Books)
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