Özet:

Myths, which can be described as the products of the effort to understand and make sense of one's own life, the universe it is in, and its relationship with divine beings, are vital forms of religious discourse that sheds light on the feelings, thoughts, beliefs and worldviews of the society to which it belongs. Therefore myths, which maintain their continuity and effectiveness in social and religious life, as long as they have believers in direct proportion to the meaning it adds to life, have an important place in the fact that they regulate and maintain the relationship between the world of gods and mankind. From the point of view of the field of religious studies the emergence of myths that offer plenty of material and its place in human life have been tried to be explained by religionswissenschafters in various contexts such as language, society, sacred idea, history and politics. While Max Müller described the myth as a tongue disease, Mircea Eliade focused on his relationship with the holy. When it comes to the postmodern period, the myths were purified from their holy thought and became ordinary and became a means of gaining political power. The aim of this article is to reveal the place and importance of mythology from the classical period to the postmodern era, its relationship with the religious field, its functionality in human life and the new meanings it gained in the postmodern period as reflected in the Reliigous Studies. For this purpose, the subject-matter is handled in the light of the views of Religionswissenschafters who come to the fore with their studies in the field of mythology.

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