I noticed most ancient people’s religion get called mythologies, does that have something to do with it?
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Myths are stories and mythology is a collection of stories.
Religion needs belief in one or more deities and rituals or practices.
For example, Christianity is a religion and the stories of Jesus and the disciples are part of the mythology related to the religion of Christianity.
Another example – Hinduism is a religion and the stories of Hindu gods and goddesses would be the mythology related to the religion of Hinduism.
They are technically interchangable, but it really comes down to origin. All religions technically originate from the same place, but then the grow separate beyond that when people started to spread out. Like a long game of telephone.and then as cultures developed, that influenced what they added on. For example, alot of the mythology side comes form natural phenomenons if the regions, like volcanoes, and earthquakes. Others are a combination of different cultures mixing their beliefs together, like native American beliefs.
The only difference is who you’re asking.
> Religion is usually defined as a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion
> Since the term myth is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrative as a myth can be highly controversial: many adherents of religions view their own religion’s stories as true, and therefore object to those stories being characterized as myths, while seeing the stories of other religions as being myth. As such, some scholars label all religious narratives as myths for practical reasons, […]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth
Religions currently still have followers, mythologies are religions that people stopped believing in. It is possible that in a few hundred years some modern religions may be termed mythologies.
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