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culture (society) > cultural heritage > traditional culture > myth

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myth  

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  • A traditional or legendary story, usually dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, heroes or events, that is with or without determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, but is used to explain some practice, rite or phenomenon of nature, or to justify the existence of a social institution.

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http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/10964

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