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...
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its later form. Origin myths explain how a society's customs, institutions, and taboos were established and sanctified. National myths are narratives about...
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Etiology (redirect from Aitiological myth)
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...
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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...
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Black Irish (folklore) (section Spanish origin myth)
geneticist Dan Bradley of Trinity College Dublin rejecting the Spanish origin myth. Some researchers have suggested the concept of "Black Irish" as the...
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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...
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Romulus and Remus (category Origin myths)
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,...
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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...
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Eridu Genesis (redirect from Sumerian flood myth)
the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the global flood. Other Sumerian creation myths include the Barton Cylinder, the Debate...
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Shakya (section Origin myth)
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...
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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]...
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Solomonic dynasty (section Foundation and origin myth)
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...
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Gordian Knot (category Greek myths)
Great with an attested origin-myth in Macedon, of which Alexander is most likely to have been aware. Based on this origin myth, the new dynasty was not...
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Panhu (section Basic myth)
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...
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Strix (mythology) (section Greek origin myth)
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...
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scholars due to its structural differences from other national myths: it is not an origin myth, does not provide formative context, and is not heroic in nature...
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authors proceed to investigate these various issues of the origin story. Continuity Origin myth Prequel Reboot Retcon Hatfield, Charles; et al. (2013). The...
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Philippine mythology (redirect from Filipino myths and legends)
"VISAYAN Origin Myth: Creation of the Sun and Moon". The Aswang Project. July 30, 2016. Clark, Jordan (September 23, 2017). "Kapampangan Origin of Day &...
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Ethnicity (redirect from Ethnic origin)
membership tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritage, ancestry, origin myth, history, homeland, language, dialect, religion, mythology, folklore...
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A national myth is an inspiring narrative or anecdote about a nation's past. Such myths often serve as important national symbols and affirm a set of national...
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Melanesian mythology (section Origin myths)
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...
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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...
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Masonic myths occupy a central place in Freemasonry. Derived from founding texts or various biblical legends, they are present in all Masonic rites and...
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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...
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Seri Gumum Dragon (section Origin myth of Chini Lake)
the creature in the oral literature. The notable one is related to the origin myth of the lake itself, while another legend narrates about a love story...
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The founding myth of Marseille is an ancient creation myth telling the legendary foundation of the colony of Massalia (modern Marseille), on the Mediterranean...
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Wars and Sawa (category Origin myths)
(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...
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Pa'O people (section Origin Myth)
being lit as they are carried, as a show of respect to Buddha. The Pa'O origin myth states that they are descended from a shaman (weizza), and a female dragon...
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Nu (mythology) (section Origin myth)
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...
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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...
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