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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

organization was a significant change for the Khitans, the Khitan language, origin myth, shamanic religion and nomadic lifestyle endured. China was in chaos...

lunar calendar) being connected with the figure of Qu Yuan. As for the origin myth, a fable recounts that the people commemorated the drowning death of...

rulers, the succession of human ages, the origin of human woes, and the origin of sacrificial practices. Myths are also preserved in the Homeric Hymns,...

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

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...

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...

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...

The founding myth of Marseille is an ancient creation myth telling the legendary foundation of the colony of Massalia (modern Marseille), on the Mediterranean...

Flood myths are common across a wide range of cultures, extending back into Bronze Age and Neolithic prehistory. These accounts depict a flood, sometimes...

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...

with them certain social development. Starkly contrasted, the Tutsi origin myth holds that Kanyarwanda had several sons, including Gatutsi and Gahutu...

terrible aspect of the earth-mother, Tellus. Ovid supplies or elaborates an origin-myth for the Mater Larum as a once-loquacious nymph, Lara, whose tongue is...

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...

The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis (chapter 11) meant to explain the existence of different languages and cultures...

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...

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

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...

example, there is a well-known origin myth that describes how the Incan Empire began at its center in Cusco. In this origin myth, four men and women emerged...

which Tārā arose. The Indian master Sūryagupta explains this myth as follows: What was Her origin? - Arya-Lokesvara, the Lord and Refuge of the Three Realms...