"Myth"

The word "myth" comes from the greek "mythos" meaning "story" or "tale". I just thought that was kind of curious, since the ancient greeks considered these "stories" to be true; they took it for religious truth. And if you examine the basis for the most popular religions today, they all center around myths and stories that a culture believes to be true. Sort of a paradox, but I thought it was a neat observation that myths are recurring across time in all cultures, and that religion is a realm of life that operates within the cyclic time scale as opposed to the linear. Think of reincarnation and living eternally in heaven. I guess linear time is a very established, worldly, modern scale but cyclic is something more sacred. It actually ties in very well with Aristotle's view of poetry and history. Linear time is historical, and cyclic is poetic. Just adding some thoughts on the idea...