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World Mythology: A Very Short Introduction BN_Top_100 others that we need toThe mythologies of the world are collective cultural dreams, and as such should be analyzed first from cultural perspectives. How do myths of the ancient Egyptians or Greeks, for instance, reflect the realities of the Egyptian and Greek cultures? When compared, however, mythologies reveal certain universal themes or motifs that point to larger trans cultural issues such as the place of the human species in creation or the nature of deity as a concept.