CHAPTER ONE

1.0.   GENERAL BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Myth is a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or natural explanation, especially and that is concerned with details or demigods and explains some practice, vie, and phenomenon of nature.

Similarly, Mythology can also be a story about superhuman beings of an earlier age taken by preliterate society to be a true account, usually of how natural phenomena, social customs and others came into existence. A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people, can also be an ancient, fictional story, especially on a sealing with gods, heroes and others.

The term Mythology can also be either the study of Myths, or to a body of Myths. For example, Comparative Mythology is the study of connections between Myths from different cultures whereas Greek Mythology is the body of Myths from ancient Greece. The term Myths is often used colloquially to refer to a false story but academic use of the term generally to Mean Passing Judgment on truth or falsity.

In addition, Folklore is unwritten Literature of a people as expressed in Folk takes, proverb, riddles Songs and others.

Similarly, its also the body of stories and legends attached to a particular place, group, activity and others so, the Link between folklore and Myth is the fact that they are both unwritten literature of people as expressed in proverbs, riddles, songs and others. In the study of Folklore, a myth is a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present from. Many Scholars In other filed use the term “Myth” In somewhat different ways. In a very broad sense, the word can refer to any traditional.

Soyinka, (1976) Proposed that “Myth was created out of ritual. The later tem must understood in a wide sense, because in primitive societies everything is sacred, nothing profane. Every action –eating, drinking, tilling, fighting – has its proper procedure, which being prescribed, is holy. ”Soyinka 1976.

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