Mythology in the concept of popular mentality
“...And what has exhausted me during my research into local mythology is that it is inevitably linked to disbelief and polytheism by those who do not know what mythology is in the first place. The irony is that there is a segment of our society that reads Greek philosophy and looks at ancient books and manuscripts from other cultures in Europe, Asia, and the Arabian Peninsula. She watches films of Greek and Roman mythology without objection, “if I do not say with enjoyment and praise,” and when it comes to North African mythology, local mythology, and the history of their geographical area in which they were born and on which they live, they call it polytheism, heresies, and nonsense invented to “strike” the faith, not out of fear of it (film I read before - as far as I know - about an infidel who left his religion because of his knowledge of mythology.)
But hatred, hatred and contempt for the local heritage in all its folkloric forms...”
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