Mytheme
In structuralism-influenced studies of mythology, a mytheme is the essential kernel of a myth— it represents an irreducible, unchanging element, a minimal unit that is always found shared with other, related mythemes and reassembled in various ways ("bundled" was Claude Lévi-Strauss's image) or linked in more complicated relationships. For example, the myths of Adonis and Osiris share several elements, leading some scholars to conclude that they share a source, i.e. images passed down in cultures or from one to another, being ascribed new interpretations of the action depicted as well as new names in various readings of icons. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009), who gave the term wide circulation, wrote, "If one wants to establish a parallel between structural linguistics and the structural
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Mytheme
In structuralism-influenced studies of mythology, a mytheme is the essential kernel of a myth— it represents an irreducible, unchanging element, a minimal unit that is always found shared with other, related mythemes and reassembled in various ways ("bundled" was Claude Lévi-Strauss's image) or linked in more complicated relationships. For example, the myths of Adonis and Osiris share several elements, leading some scholars to conclude that they share a source, i.e. images passed down in cultures or from one to another, being ascribed new interpretations of the action depicted as well as new names in various readings of icons. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009), who gave the term wide circulation, wrote, "If one wants to establish a parallel between structural linguistics and the structural
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