abstract:In the study of mythology, a mytheme is the essential kernel of a myth—an irreducible, unchanging element,Similarly, in linguistics a morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning and in a language or dialect, a phoneme (from the , phōnēma, "a sound uttered") is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances. a minimal unit that is always found shared with other, related mythemes and reassembled in various ways—"bundled" was Claude Lévi-Strauss's image—Lévi-Strauss: "the true constituent units of a myth are not the isolated relations but bundles of such relations" (Lévi-Strauss 1963:211).