The study of myths , or "sayings". The myth has a natural origin in the belief that every natural object has a life or soul and in the imperfect language of early man.
The first poets who described nature did not use similes. They said the cloud was a bellowing bull and not that the thunder in the cloud bellowed like a bull. The meanings of the myths, when fairly clear, are explained in special articles on the various legends.
Turanian and Semitic races have myths as well as Aryans , and the Greeks BORROWED many of theirs from Akkadians, Hittites, Babylonians and Phoenicians....
Faits of Man - Forlong