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Mythology has two real purposes (1) to explain events and natural occurences that the people could not explain, for example the story of Arachne explained the origin of Spiders and Kokopelli explained the origin of children born out of wedlock (2) they are also used to influence people, for example Santa Claus keeps children in line While the powerful beasts of Greece kept people from straying.

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