What Are Myths and Mythology?

The idea of myth and ommithology emerges in the 18th century as part of the Anitemen, precisely coterminously with the invention of modern history and historiography. It's this idea that you read all these different sets of stories that so-called primitive people have had and told it themselves in each other to explain the world. And by the by sometime in the 19th century, this is a real preoccupation of people,. like how do we understand what do we make of the fact that there are all these recurring patterns? So, you know, in George Eliot's novel Middlerebon, one of the characters will be working on his great academic work