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What is a myth?
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A generally accepted belief not supported by fact
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What is a folktale?
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a story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.
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What is a legend?
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a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated
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What is cosmogony?
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Myth of creation. Story of how the cosmos began and developed.
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What is the collective unconscious?
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An underlying region of the mind in which memories of universal human experience are stored.
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Who is Carl G. Jung? What year did he die?
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He was a psychologist. He died in 1961.
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What does the collective unconscious hold?
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The human experience of the past 1-2 million years.
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When you are born, is your mind a blank slate?
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No.
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What does Jung say about archetypes?
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They manifest themselves in conscious forms of art.
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What do myths reflect?
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The unconscious.
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