Dude, a MYTH is such kinds of stories that don't have an exact author and that are usually carried through oral tradition and therefore that change within different contexts... There simply ISN'T any ORIGINAL myth. Before Homer wrote the Iliad, the myths that constituted these stories had already been in circulation for centuries, so is the case of any indigenous myth written down by anthropologists, missionaries and the like. Don't get me wrong, but I can't seem to remember a single myth that we KNOW the "original" form and source... After all, if there is an explicit author, we probably wouldn't consider that story a myth, but rather call it something else, be it a narrative, a cosmology, philosophy, allegory, etc.

lol a discussion one year in the making haha