Classification and Explanation of myths - no agreement  among scholars 

  (different approaches):

- Causal and etymological explanations (Andrew Lang)

- Nature myths (Max Müller)

- Collective mentality of an Age — how people thought (Vico)

- Cultural morphology — expressions of a culture (von Herder)

- Social charters (Bronislaw Malinowski)

- Ritual (Cambridge School - Harrison, Cornford, Graves and later Paglia via Frazer and Freud)

- Invocations of the Golden Age or a past creative era (Mircea Eliade)

- Metaphors and archetypes (Freud and Jung)

- Structuralism (Lévi-Strauss)