Myth
A myth is considered to be a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving what would be classified as supernatural beings or events.
A myth as a "traditional story" may be an allegory filled with metaphors that, like parables, may not be true but may express truths in in symbolic forms of prose or poetry.
Ancient prophets and prophetess, seer and soothsayer, diviner and oracle have been used to gain insight into the unknown because people had fear of what they do not understand or comprehend for whatever reason.
Through the false interpretation of the ancient manuscripts the original meaning intended by authors may become myth.
The Roman and Greeks sought insight through prophets about what they did not understand by interpreting the Sibylline Books[1], were offered for sale to Tarquinius Superbus, the last of the seven kings of Rome, by the Cumaean sibyl[2]. The translation and interpretation of their meaning was left to the decemviri.
The libri Sibyllini contained apocalyptic passages scattered throughout often dimly shadow themes of the Book of Revelation and other apocalyptic literature.
Athenagoras of Athens wrote A Plea for the Christians to Marcus Aurelius in AD 176, quoted the same section of the extant of the libri Sibyllini verbatim. The word "Sibyl" comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word sibulla, meaning "prophetess" of which there have been many.
Other early Church writers like Theophilus, Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop of Antioch, Clement of Alexandria (ca. 200), Lactantius (ca. 305), and Augusti ne (ca. 400), all knew various versions of the pseudo-Sibylline collections, quoted them or referred to them in paraphrase, and were willing to Christianize them, by as simple means as inserting "Son of God" into a passage, as Lactantius:
"The Erythraean Sibyl" in the beginning of her song, which she commenced by the help of the Most High God, proclaims the Son of God as leader and commander of all in these verses: All-nourishing Creator, who in all Sweet breath implanted, and made God the guide of all."
Both the Pharisees and the Essenes read the Pentateuch and sacred scriptures but came to completely different conclusions about their meaning.
The unmooring of the metaphors from their meaning is a means of giving rise to superstations over insight, imagination over truth.
The Flavian Myth found in the book Caesar's Messiah by Joseph Atwill is an example of a modern myth.
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