Or so an ancient legend goes at least.

至少古代神话事是述的。

In the Samburu creation story, wildlife belong to women.

桑布鲁的神话事中，野生动物属于女人。

In fairy tales witches often use magic to change persons into animals or birds.

在神话事中，巫婆常使魔术将人变成动物或鸟。

Over the generations, many myths have abounded about the Canary Islands.

几代以来，加那利群岛盛传许多 神话事。

But first, let’s start with the myth.

但首先让我们先来一下个神话事。

What explains the power of all this modern-day mythology?

当代神话事为何有如此大的魅力？

They are fairy tales that have been proved false.

它们是已经被证伪的神话事。

So much for the myth itself, Sophie. But what is the real meaning behind it?

个神话事到此结束。然而，其中真正的意义究竟是什么?

Nordsveen described the experience as being magical and like a fairy tale.

Nordsveen称此次经历“很神奇”且像“神话事”一。

Round these concepts whole societies, as well as stories, were organised.

所有社会，无一例外，都是围绕些对立的概念构建而成的，各种的神话事就更了。

Man sometimes mythological stories feel a LOT like mad libs.

有时神话事中的男人感觉很像疯狂的人。

This is a lesson that's also taught in many a myth.

是一个很多神话事中都在传递的寓意。

Over the millennia a wild profusion of mythological explanations of philosophical questions spread across the world.

数千年来，世界各地有许多企图解答哲学性问题的神话事。

But there were countless myths about Thor and Odin, Freyr and Freya, Hoder and Balder and many other gods.

事实上，关于索尔与欧丁、芙瑞耶(Freyr)、芙瑞雅、霍德尔(Hoder)、波尔德(Balder)与其他多位天神，还有数清的神话事。

But what I have done instead is turn my relationship into the kind of myth I don't quite believe in.

然而我所做的却是将我的爱情变成了一个 我自己都怎么相信的神话事。

And of course, we couldn't do an episode on thoeries of mythology without mentioning the best-known mythologist of the twentieth century.

当然，在介绍神话事时，我们能提到二十世纪最著名的神话学家。

As observant readers may notice, many of aforementioned productions are inspired by ancient tales of monsters and mythical beings called yaoguai.

敏锐的读者可能会注意到，前面提到的许多作品都是受古代怪物和被称为妖怪的神话事的启发。

Though the story is mythical, Gilgamesh was probably a real king of Uruk.

尽管个事是神话事，但吉尔伽美什很可能是真正的乌鲁克国王。

" My teacher read myths to us, " said Jack.

“我的老师给我们读神话事，”杰克。

The internal mechanics of myths may not have changed much over the ages, but the technology used to impart them certainly has.

神话事架构可能未随时间流转变，但是让其流传开来的技术手段却日新月异。