Plutarch recounts one version of the myth in which Set ( Osiris ' brother ), along with the Queen of Ethiopia, conspired with 72 accomplices to plot the assassination of Osiris.

Yeats also recounts the myth of Leda and the Swan in his poetry.

In his Life of Sertorius cited above, Plutarch recounts what he says to be a local myth, according to which Heracles consorted with Tinge after the death of Antaeus and had by her a son Sophax, who named a city in North Africa Tingis after his mother.

Ovid creates or recounts the myth of how the fountain came to be so in the story of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis.

The myth of Galanthis is also briefly mentioned by Pausanias: he recounts the Theban version of the story, which referred to the heroine as Historis, called her a daughter of Teiresias, and made no mention of her transformation.

One ancient Egyptian myth preserved in the Papyrus Westcar recounts the story of Isis, Nephthys, Meskhenet, and Heqet as traveling dancers in disguise, assisting the wife of a priest of Amun-Re as she prepares to bring forth sons who are destined for fame and fortune.

This idea is vividly illustrated in book 2 of the Republic when Glaucon, taking up Thrasymachus ’ challenge, recounts a myth of the magical ring of Gyges.

At one point, he falls in love with a female satyr-like creature who recounts to him the full Gnostic creation myth ; Gnosticism is a pervasive presence in another of Eco's novels, Foucault's Pendulum.

Protagoras says his claim that virtue can be taught is better made by a story than by reasoned arguments, and he recounts a myth about the origins of living things.

Live, the group was often punishingly loud ( one urban myth recounts that a Red Square set drowned out Cliff Richard who was playing at a venue half a mile away !).

The myth recounts that Zeus was so moved by the ram's fate that he gave it the greatest honour of being moved to the heavens.

Eichmann himself is a model of how the myth of the enemy-Jew can be used to transform the ordinary man of present-day society into a menace to all his neighbors.

The account, which explains how the snake crushes and devours tigers, is full of popular misconceptions, but was much read at the time, and so gave rise to the myth of the anaconda of Ceylon.

Two examples illustrate how the myth developed.

A creation myth is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.

" In other words, myth tells how, through the deeds of Supernatural Beings, a reality came into existence, be it the whole of reality, the Cosmos, or only a fragment of reality – an island, a species of plant, a particular kind of human behavior, an institution.

In the study of mythology the term " myth " refers to a traditional story, often regarded as sacred, which explains how the world and its inhabitants came to have their present form.

The myth of the lost poem tells how an inspired work was mysteriously given to the poet and dispelled irrecoverably.

The legend of Asena is an old Turkic myth that tells of how the Turkic people were created.

In folkloristics, a myth is a sacred narrative usually explaining how the world or humankind came to be in its present form, although, in a very broad sense, the word can refer to any traditional story.

In folkloristics, a " myth " is a sacred narrative usually explaining how the world or humankind came to be in its present form, " a story that serves to define the fundamental worldview of a culture by explaining aspects of the natural world and delineating the psychological and social practices and ideals of a society ".

* Creation myth, a symbolic account of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it

Reflecting a myth attested in Greek vase paintings from the Classical period, Pseudo-Apollodorus places the Titan ( armed with an axe ) at the birth of Athena, thus explaining how the goddess sprang forth from the forehead of Zeus.

One critic wrote the image of John F. Kennedy was described as carefully framed " in rich detail " which " drew on the power of myth " regarding the incident of PT 109 and wrote that Kennedy understood how to use images to further his presidential ambitions.

* 1997: Folklorists define a myth as " a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present form ".

In its primary and more technical meaning ' myth ' refers to a story or group of stories that serve to explain how a particular society views their world.

This is why Bearden focuses on Christ ’ s body first, to portray the idea of the myth, and then highlights the crowd, to show how the idea is passed on to men.

Some versions of the Grail myth emphasize how the Grail creates food and goods.

" A much later myth relates how Set killed Osiris, putting him in a coffin, and throwing it into the Nile, the coffin becoming embedded in the base of a tamarisk tree.

At least two significantly different versions of the myth are reported, giving different accounts of how the variety is supposed to have been brought from Shiraz to Rhône, and differing up to 1, 800 years in dating this event.

In the eschatological myth which closes the Republic he tells the story how Er, the son of Armenius, miraculously returned to life on the twelfth day after death and recounted the secrets of the other world.

Local myth describes how in years gone by, due to its supposed illegal nature, Blue Vinny would be left on the doorstep of those who ordered it on the black market.

In France, the myth was the subject of a play by Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon 38 ( 1929 ), the number in the title being Giraudoux's whimsical approximation of how many times the story had been told onstage previously.

In 1924, Rank published Das Trauma der Geburt ( translated into English as The Trauma of Birth in 1929 ), exploring how art, myth, religion, philosophy and therapy were illuminated by separation anxiety in the “ phase before the development of the Oedipus complex ” ( p. 216 ).

In Plato's myth, Poseidon fell in love with Cleito, the daughter of Evenor and Leucippe, who bore him five pairs of male twins.

According to the myth, it is found in the heavens, where the first humans lived, until a pregnant woman fell and landed in an endless sea.

According to myth, Poseidon fell in love with the beautiful nymph Korkyra, daughter of Asopus and river nymph Metope, and abducted her.

In the central myth in its Greek telling, Aphrodite fell in love with the beautiful youth ( possibly because she had been wounded by Eros's arrow ).

According to one origin myth, a boy went into the forest to collect honey, was stung by bees, and fell from a tree.

One myth surrounding the moon was to account for the " dark spots "; it was believed that a fox fell in love with Mama Quilla because of her beauty, but when he rose into the sky, she squeezed him against her, producing the patches.

In many variants of the creation myth, Atahensic ( also known as Ataensic ) was a Sky Woman who fell to the Earth.

The use of this wreath comes from the Greek myth involving Apollo, Zeus ’ son and the god of life and light, who fell in love with the nymph Daphne.

The most important of these is the myth " The Moon God who fell from the Sky ", written in both Hattic language and Hittite.

In nationalist circles, the myth fell on fertile ground.

In nationalistic and national minded circles the myth fell on fertile ground.

A popular myth describes how Mėnulis ( Moon ) fell in love with beautiful Aušrinė, cheated on his wife Saulė, and received punishment from Perkūnas ( thunder god ).

According to myth, during construction a cart-horse and driver were killed when they fell into one of the piers while dumping their load, and were buried in the concrete.

* 1715-There is a myth that Doggett fell into the Thames, and was saved by Watermen

The other myth claimed Laumė fell in love with a beautiful young man down to earth.

' Much has been written about it, and much of what has been written has been frankly a good deal of nonsense ... Legend by now it may be, but the Old Wreck is no myth ..." In 2005, Dr. Murray Johns also documented the nineteenth century eye-witnesses to the wreck, but found they fell into three distinct groups – those who placed the wreck in the sea, a second group who said it was on the beach, a third group who identified it as high up in the sand dunes.

While the Heironean version teaches that Hextor fell in with evil out of weakness, Hextorian myth teaches that he chose evil from a position of strength, choosing to forge his own destiny rather than remain in the shadow of his brother.