The origins of the Hellenic gods, super heroes, and mythological devices date back to the Neolithic epoch in Central Europe prior to  the Hellenes relocating southward into the Peninsula in the second millennium BC, and to most of the islands of the Aegean, and west coast of Anatolia; in 1000 BC. These figures are quite transparent in German, French and English science, drama, and literature.

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For example: in the field of psychoanalysis, in which the Moravian born neuropathologist, Sigmund Freud, developed the theory of the Oedipus complex. In drama, America's Eugene O'Neill, who borrowed Freud's hypothesis of the unconscious, and the Greek concept of fate based upon Aeschylus' Oresteia; for the creation of his trilogy 'Mourning Becomes Electra'. And in literature, French novelist and existentialist Jean Paul Sartre.

The English noun mythology is constructed from two Greek words: mithos (story ), and loyia ( knowledge or study). Mithos is a traditional narrative of supernatural (deities) or imaginary persons, figures, or mythological devices; and  represents concepts about their activities in their objective world. These traditional narratives include gods, super heroes, as well as stones, plants and animals, which have been the seminal ingredients for many of the filmic characters, plots and stories, for example:

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Mary Shelly's reconstruction of the Titan demi-god Prometheus in James Whale's early sound chiller 'Frankenstein'; (Universal Pictures, 1931). Bernard Shaw's comedic masterpiece 'Pygmalion' ( Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard, MGM. UK 1938.) and 26-years later, the musical adaption 'My Fair Lady' ( George Cukor, Warner Bros, US 1964.) Both these films were Shaw's renditions of Pygmalion , king of Cyprus, who fell in love with a statue of Aphrodite. Jean Cocteau's enduring masterpiece 'Oprhée' (Andre Paulve, Films du Palais Royal, France 1949); an adaptation of the legend of Orpheus ; the lyre player; and his wife Eurydice .

'The Adventures of Captain Marvel' ( Republic Pictures, 12 episodes, 1941. ) who is given his super powers by Achilles, Atlas, Zeus and others. A stone figure ( the "Stone Cruncher" ) was used in 'Die Unendliche Geschichte/The NeverEnding Story' (Wolfgang Peterson, 1984). A plant (allium sativum) was used as a device ( weapon ) against Dracula in F. W. Murnau's expressionistic 'Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens' (Universum Film Aktien Gesellschaft 1922), And an animal ( 'la bęte' ) in Jean Cocteau's Vermeer-styled 'La belle et la bęte' (1946).

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