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Homework Hotline - Mythology |
 | | Students of anthropology, folklore, and religion study myths in different ways, distinguishing them from various other forms of popular, often orally transmitted, literature. |
| | Much of that literature is classified according to its presumed function: fables, which instruct; etiological tales, which explain; and folktales, which entertain. |
| | Myths may perform any one or all three of these functions, but in addition play a critical role in how a culture constructs its sense of time. |
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