An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world. Creation myths are a type of origin myth narrating...

its later form. Origin myths explain how a society's customs, institutions, and taboos were established and sanctified. National myths are narratives about...

etiologies. Thus, an etiological myth, or origin myth, is a myth that has arisen, been told over time or written to explain the origins of various social or natural...

A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it. While...

Black Donnellys jests at the terms mythic origins by claiming that the Spanish Armada myth covers a deeper myth about a pre-Celtic race of dark skinned...

it is a type of origin myth, a myth that describes the origin of some feature of the natural or social world. No one type of these myths is universal, but...

janapada itself. The myth of the Shakyas' ancestors being four pairs of married twin siblings was a myth which traced the origins of the ruling Shakya...

the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the global flood. Other Sumerian creation myths include the Barton Cylinder, the Debate...

origins of the different elements in Rome's foundation myth are a subject of ongoing debate. They may have come from the Romans' own Italic origins,...

The Masada myth is the early Zionist retelling of the Siege of Masada, and an Israeli national myth. The Masada myth is a selectively constructed narrative...

The Boogeyman: The Origin of the Myth (Spanish: El hombre del saco) is a 2023 Spanish-Uruguayan teen fantasy horror film directed by Ángel Gómez Hernández [de]...

positioned its feet upwards and head below, according to a pre-300 BC Greek origin myth. It is probably meant to be (and translated as) an owl, but is highly...

theological contexts Creation myth, a symbolic account of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it Origin myth, a story or explanation that...

Enlil's courtship with Ninlil is primarily a genealogical myth invented to explain the origins of the moon-god Nanna, as well as the various gods of the...

literature. (Yang 2005:4) The Panhu myth is an important origin myth for various ethnic groups. The basic Panhu myth is about a dragon-dog who transformed...

structures – can be spoken of. By the late Republic, the usual Roman origin myth held that their city was founded by a Latin named Romulus on the day...

myth" or "origin myth" is more accurate than "creation myth", since very few stories involve a creator deity or divine will. Chinese creation myths fundamentally...

ocean, and the ocean itself was referred to as Nu. In some versions of this myth, at the beginning of time Mehet-Weret, portrayed as a cow with a sun disk...

authors proceed to investigate these various issues of the origin story. Continuity Origin myth Prequel Reboot Retcon Hatfield, Charles; et al. (2013). The...

improbable and unsupported by evidence. It is a myth. Although the story originated as a medieval political myth, it nevertheless became embedded in the Ethiopian...

widespread sea. One myth states that a great serpent commanded a reef to rise to form the first area of dry land. Another origin myth entails a man and...

influence of the Italiote Greeks, the Romans acquired their own national origin myth sometime during the early Republican era (500–300 BC). It was centred...

siblings emerged from the waters of Lake Titicaca. Since this was a later origin myth than that of Pacaritambo it may have been created as a ploy to bring...

"VISAYAN Origin Myth: Creation of the Sun and Moon". The Aswang Project. July 30, 2016. Clark, Jordan (September 23, 2017). "Kapampangan Origin of Day &...

membership tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritage, ancestry, origin myth, history, homeland, language, dialect, religion, mythology, folklore...

(also known as War and Warsz) and Sawa are legendary characters from the origin myth of the founding and etymology of the city of Warsaw, capital of Poland...

Subsets include: Myth may also refer to: Urban myth, a story circulated as true, often attributed to "a friend of a friend". Origin myth, which purports...

Masonic myths occupy a central place in Freemasonry. Derived from founding texts or various biblical legends, they are present in all Masonic rites and...

The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis meant to explain the existence of different languages and cultures. According...

gautaz, which represents a mythical ancestor or national god in the origin myth of the Geats. Gautaz may be connected to the name of the Swedish river...