Purposes+of+Myths

Myths exist in different cultures, times, and places, and yet serve certain universal functions:

Origin Myths explain where something specific comes from, such as why there exists the phenomena of an "echo." Example- ​ The Marriage of the ice Maiden 

When the ice maiden sees Frey, her heart melts and flowers start to grow. "her heart meltedlike frozen ground beneath the summer sun. And as soon as she embraced him, flowers blossomed in all the fields" This would be an origin myth because it explains the way the world is. -VS ​

Creation Myths explain where everything comes from, as in the formation of the world as we know it.

The purpose of the myth of King Midas's Gold touch is to tell that possesions cannot bring happiness. People can. King Midas learned that the hard way.~!JS

In the story __"The Golden Apples."__ Loki tricks Idun to bring her apples to a spot in the forest, because Loki said he found "wonderful" apples. Then, Thiazi swoops down in his eagle disguise and snatches Idun and the golden apples. Loki tricked Idun so Thiazi could get the golden apples. __The Golden Apples__ therefore is a trickster myth. -MS

The purpose of the myth: "Odin's Three Quests" was to explain how the runes came to be. The runes is actually the viking alphabet. (called a futhark)

**VIKING RUNES**​


 * IN a fantastic viking myth ("Odin's Three Quests") odin learns how to read runes and then passes them on to mankind. To Vikings the Runesis actually their alphabet. Down below you can see the Viking alphabet. ( also called a "futhark" in their language ) They wrote the runes in rock at places to let other Vikings know theyv'e been there. They did not use the runes to write books.It may look difficult but they wrote it ~ ​ JS

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