mythic tales
Stories of gods
Mythic tales are stories drawn from or resembling mythology—narratives involving gods, heroes, supernatural forces, and the origins of things.
The phrase emphasizes the grand, timeless quality of such stories: The film draws on mythic tales of the American West.
Unlike myth alone, mythic tales foregrounds the storytelling tradition rather than belief or falsehood.
- once upon a timeTraditional narrative opening
- Celtic legendsTraditional Irish and Welsh tales
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- cosmogonyStudy of universal origins
- fallen heroesCasualties remembered with honor
ancient wisdom · golden age · epic poetry · creation myths · oral tradition · sacred texts · pantheons · saga · legendary creatures · trickster figures · fire breathing · transformation · allegory · dark forest · fables · prophecy · animism · primordial chaos
- fictionfiction, novel, novels, novella, novellas
- ancient religiongods, goddesses, pantheon, deity, polytheism
- Germanic LiteratureBeowulf, Faust, sagas, Icelandic sagas, Goethe
- Jewish Talesfolktales, aggadah, midrash, folk legends, moral fables
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folktale
- Norse mythologyThor, Odin, Loki, Valhalla, Ragnarok
mythic taleshistorical accounts
Records of past events
nonfiction · eyewitness accounts · primary sources · archival records · chronicles