Two examples illustrate how the myth developed.

The idea of Satan as God's opponent may have developed under the influence of the combat myth.

To support the intended process of nation building even further, a vague myth of some common Germanic original language developed, and German dialectology began to name dialect groups after presumed and real groups of historic tribes having existed from BC to about 600 AD, from which they were assumed to have descended.

Vincenzo, through his tuning research, found the underlying truth at the heart of the misunderstood myth of ' Pythagoras ' hammers ' ( the square of the numbers concerned yielded those musical intervals, not the actual numbers, as believed ), and through this and other discoveries that demonstrated the fallibility of traditional authorities, a radically empirical attitude developed, passed on to Galileo, which regarded " experience and demonstration " as the sine qua non of valid rational enquiry.

The myth was fully developed into something like an " official ", chronological version in the Late Republican and early Imperial era ; Roman historians dated the city's foundation to between 758 and 728 BC, and Plutarch reckoned the twins ' birth year as c. 771 BC.

In the Bible, the dwindling of Simeon is portrayed as being a divine punishment for their reaction to the Rape of Dinah, though many biblical scholars view the episode, and Dinah herself, as an aetiological myth which developed to explain Simeon's misfortune, after it had occurred.

The episode of Iphigenia and Cymon that inspired such painters as Benjamin West ( 1773 ), John Everett Millais ( 1848 ) and Frederic Leighton ( 1884 ) is not a Greek myth, but a novella taken from Boccaccio's Decameron and developed later by the poet and dramatist John Dryden.

He was venerated at Olympia, where his cult developed into the founding myth of the Olympic Games, the most important expression of unity, not only for the Peloponnesus, " island of Pelops ", but for all Hellenes.

There are various forms of matriarchy, or even a utopia that resembles the Greek myth of the Amazons .... ery few modern utopias have been developed in which women are absolute autocrats.

Most likely, once Fauna's mythology seemed to offer an explanation for Bona Dea's mysterious cult, the myth developed circumstantially, to fit what little was known of the practice.

His wife was Boann, goddess of the River Boyne, who according to myth developed a great passion for the Dagda.

In a later myth developed around an annual drunken Sekhmet festival, Ra, the sun god, created her from a fiery eye gained from his mother, Hathor ( daughter of Ra ), to destroy mortals who conspired against him ( Lower Egypt ).

An urban myth developed that he had been denied treatment and allowed to bleed to death, because of his being black, but eyewitnesses, including one of his fellow doctors who was at the hospital, have testified that nothing of the sort happened, as detailed in the Raleigh News and Observer.

In the mid-eighteenth century as the investigation of geology found evidence such as fossils, naturalists developed new ideas which diverged from the Genesis creation myth.

In a later myth developed around the annual drunken Sekhmet festival, Ra, by then the sun god of Upper Egypt, created her from a fiery eye gained from his mother, to destroy mortals who conspired against him ( Lower Egypt ).

An urban myth has developed that the title change derives from the fear that American audiences would think the film was a sequel, because of the use of Roman numerals in its title.

An urban myth developed around reports, made by RAF Bomber Command crews, who claimed " scarecrow shells " were encountered over Germany.

Within folklore, MacRitchie's euhemeristic view of fairies developed a racialist school which considered that the fairies and other beings such as elves and goblins of British myth represented primitive pre-Aryans, a view proposed most notably by John S. Stuart Glennie, Laurence Waddell and Alfred Cort Haddon.

During World War II, Reischauer was the Japan expert for the U. S. Army Intelligence Service, and a myth developed that he prevented the bombing of Kyoto during the war, as explained by Robert Jungk in Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A personal history of the atomic scientists:

In the myth of Pangu, developed by Taoist monks hundreds of years after Lao Zi, the universe began as an egg.

" A myth developed after the disaster that this was the first time SOS was used, but it had been used on other ships previously.

Kerényi hence developed an increasingly hostile position towards the German idea of myth, which was used as reference by Nazi-Germany.

The first signature methodology of American studies was the " myth and symbol " approach, developed in such foundational texts as Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land in 1950 and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden in 1964.

He argues that science and mathematics developed from natural language, and religion and art from myth.

Hence, people came to regard the idea of bird-men as nothing more than a myth, an old wives ’ tale to frighten naughty children.

More purely Hellenic myth would have Amathus settled instead by one of the sons of Heracles, thus accounting for the fact that he was worshiped there.

In the 16th-century invention of a suitably antique origin myth for the Dutch people that would be expressive of their self-identification as separate from their neighbors in the national struggle with Spain of the Eighty Years War for Dutch independence, the Batavians came to be regarded as their eponymous ancestors.

Politically, this myth would seem to indicate events of an early period when political authority passed from Enki's city of Eridu to Inanna's city of Uruk.

If he succeeded, he would be purified of his sin and, as myth says, he would be granted immortality.

He believed that his story was " more invention than reality ... in part myth, Yoakum's life as he would have wished to have lived it.

The myth also claims that Confucius was fond of birds, which would explain the name " mahjong " ( maque 麻雀 = sparrow ).

Sarah Morris demonstrated ( Morris 2004 ) that donkeys ' ears were a Bronze Age royal attribute, borne by King Tarkasnawa ( Greek Tarkondemos ) of Mira, on a seal inscribed in both Hittite cuneiform and Luwian hieroglyphs: in this connection, the myth would appear for Greeks, to justify the exotic attribute.

Operation Barbarossa was named after Frederick Barbarossa, the medieval German ruler who, as myth had it, would rescue Germany in her time of need.

The cartoon series Chilly Willy helped perpetuate this myth, as the title penguin would interact with northern-hemisphere species such as polar bears and walruses.

Later they would reappear in myth and legend.

Mircea Eliade, a professor of the history of religions, declared that myth did not hold religion back, that myth was an essential foundation of religion, and that eliminating myth would eliminate a piece of the human psyche.

According to the Aztec creation myth, the god demanded human sacrifice as tribute and without it would refuse to move through the sky.

is an exact cognate with Avestan Harax < sup > v </ sup > atī, perhaps originally referring to Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā ( modern Ardwisur Anahid ), the Zoroastrian mythological world river, which would point to a common Indo-Iranian myth of a cosmic or mystical river.

The myth of Aeneas, Greek in origin, had to be reconciled with the Italian myth of Romulus and Remus, who taken as historical figures would have been born around 771 BC.

As Claude Lévi-Strauss would put it: the birth " would consist, therefore, in making explicit a situation originally existing on the emotional level and in rendering acceptable to the mind pains which the body refuses to tolerate ... the woman believes in the myth and belongs to a society which believes in it.

This diversity led Thornton to describe the initial " exploration of the Atlantic " as " a truly international exercise, even if many of the dramatic discoveries as those of Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan were made under the sponsorship of the Iberian monarchs ", something that would give rise to the later myth that " the Iberians were the sole leaders of the exploration ".

Khasekhemwy's use of the two animal symbols would then represent the reconciliation of the two factions, as does the resolution of the myth.

This astounding guarantee may have been an allusion to the traditional patriotic myth of Florence as the new Rome which Savonarola would have encountered in his readings in Florentine history.

According to myth, Huitzilopochtli directed the wanderers to found a city on the site where they would see an eagle devouring a snake perched on a fruit-bearing nopal cactus.

Knowledge of the common ancestry of Romulans and Vulcans would obscure into myth over the millennia, and while some Vulcans had direct dealings with Romulans in the 22nd century, the common ancestry would not become widely known until the mid-23rd century.