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Join us for part four of the Hero's Journey: Myths. You know what isn't a myth? That this video is going to be the best part of your day. That's a fact. And also maybe a lie. Who knows, really?

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Thank you We sneak in the hero's journey minutes I'll

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ashman What our mitts and how do they differ from

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one culture to the next Myths are really powerful stories

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that have some kind of explanatory power in a culture

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so all cultures have myths some are supernatural and others

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are But you can kind of think of myths as

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those stories that get circulated again and again and people

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sort of tell them in a way that helps explain

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something about the world So sometimes they're supernatural like the

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mythology of how the world was created in seven days

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or the mythology of you know odysseus navigating scylla and

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charybdis which are you know magical creatures that live in

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the ocean which help explain for dangerous ocean is but

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sometimes myths also could be based on real events right

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So we have this mythology in the united states about

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kind of the founding of america and how these all

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brilliant men came together to create this new democracy Or

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you know you might even have a myth in your

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school or in your family you know about how mom

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and dad met or something that the principal did and

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thie stories get told again and again because they help

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us Sort of understand the world that we live in

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in a simplified way What our mitts and how do 00:01:26.764 --> [endTime] they differ from one culture to the next

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