Definitions Quote by Joseph Campbell

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

— Joseph Campbell

Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of…

— Joseph Campbell

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

— Gerald Hausman

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true…

— Ambrose Bierce

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

— Augustus William Hare

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

— Joseph Campbell

“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you trace them…

— Gerald Hausman

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

— Richard King

“Scholars have produced as many definitions of myth as there are myths themselves. This book will discuss various definitions of myth as it goes…

— Helen Morales

Myth is someone else's religion.

— Caroline Llewellyn

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.

— Zsuzsanna Budapest

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

— Northrop Frye