The myth is a fantastic and fabulous story that describes what happened in antiquity but in imaginary form, unfounded or real bases. You can try epics or heroic deeds explaining the beginning of the history of a people, of humanity or the beginning of the world. In philosophy, the myth gave origin to the quot; logos quot; that is the word intelligible (that only is known by the understanding), although the myth was and continues being the base of the reality philosophical.
They say that the philosophy was born around the 6th century a. d. C. in Greece when the logos start to replace the myth in the explanations of reality. The logos is the rational, not necessarily true or scientific explanation that begins to give reason for the natural phenomena without resorting to the supernatural, which is what makes the myth. In the myth, which is based on imagination, are used to the gods or some supernatural force to explain the universe or nature or any of its phenomena, which is what the origin of philosophy focused. Reflections on the human and social came later. The myth is all pre-rationalistic explanation of the reality that the causes and effects are not homogeneous. The clearest myth is the attribution to any divine origin of universe.
