It is reported that Edson de Castro, who had been a key member of the design team, left to form Data General when his design for a 16-bit successor to the PDP-8 was rejected in favour of the PDP-11 ; the " PDP-X " did not resemble the Data General Nova, although that is a common myth.

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 racial terms, the plural majority of Valparaíso's people are mestizo but are commonly called castizos are largely white Caucasian who are distantly descendants of Mapuche, Inca, Aymara and North American Indian descent ( transplanted Cherokees are reported to come in the late 19th century, though it could well be a myth ).

Osler would enhance Davis ' myth by signing Davis ' name to hotel registers and medical conference attendance lists ; Davis was eventually reported drowned in the Lachine Rapids in 1884.

Serge Blanc relates the following myth, originally reported by Hugo Zemp:

According to early Commodore myth, and reported by writer / programmer Jim Butterfield among others, the " word " KERNAL is an acronym ( or maybe more likely, a backronym ) standing for Keyboard Entry Read, Network, And Link, which in fact makes good sense considering its role.

Despite the popular myth there was no warning " Germany will attack on 22 June without declaration of war ", moreover, Soviet intelligence reported that Germany would either invade the USSR after fall of the British Empire or after an unacceptable ultimatum demanding German occupation of Ukraine during the German invasion of Britain.

3 ; pages 259-260 ) have noted that Plutarch ( in the Moralia, V ) reported that Typhon / Seth in Egyptian and Greek myth was identified as the shadow of the Earth which covers the Moon during lunar eclipses.

It has once been reported that these chemicals were mustard oils from glucosinolates in the foodplants, but this appears to be a myth since Pieris caterpillars actually suppress the formation of mustard oils ( see glucosinolate ).

Some scholars would restrict the term to reenactments, but most accept its extension to real or simulated union in the promotion of fertility: such an ancient union of Demeter with Iasion, enacted in a thrice-plowed furrow, a primitive aspect of a sexually-active Demeter reported by Hesiod, is sited in Crete, origin of much early Greek myth.

His discovery of the 6th, that corresponding to p = 17 in the formula M < sub > p </ sub >= 2 < sup > p </ sup >- 1, exploded a many-times repeated number-theoretical myth ( Until Cataldi, 19 authors going back to Nicomachus are reported to have made the claim in L. E. Dickson's History of the Theory of Numbers — with a few more repeating this afterward ) that the perfect numbers had units digits that invariably alternated between 6 and 8 ; and that of the 7th ( for p = 19 ) held the record for the largest known prime for almost two centuries, until Leonhard Euler discovered that 2 < sup > 31 </ sup >-1 was the eighth Mersenne prime.

In 2002, it was reported that Tartt was working on a retelling of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus for the Canongate Myth Series, a series of novellas in which ancient myths are reimagined and rewritten by contemporary authors.

Though current research has reversed the myth that dreaming occurs only during REM sleep, it has also shown that the dreams reported in non-rapid eye movement ( NREM ) and REM differ qualitatively and quantitatively, suggesting that the mechanisms that control each are different.

This economist admits to some inefficiency in Soviet agriculture, but claims that the failure reported by most Western experts was a myth.

Visitors looking for paranormal phenomena have reported faint lights that disappear when they reach the church and so a myth has grown that the church is haunted.

Her criticism is reported to employ close analysis, knowledge of Greek poetics, myth, metaphor, tone and rhyme ; she is said to read with aural acuity, generosity and no polemic ; her precision " does not obscure but builds the big picture ", addressing the general reader but with " utmost attention to the page ".

It was allegedly him who reported about the Skirmish of Krojanty and created a myth from it.

The destruction of the location is reported to Enlil, and his consort Ninlil, who are praised and exhaulted at the end of the myth.

The figure of Hecate can often be associated with the figure of Isis in Egyptian myth.

Osiris is the mythological father of the god Horus, whose conception is described in the Osiris myth, a central myth in ancient Egyptian belief.

In related stories, the creation idea is caused by a single entity emanating or producing something by him-or herself, as in the Tibetan Buddhism concept of Adi-Buddha, the ancient Greek story of Gaia ( Mother Earth ), the Aztec goddess Coatlicue myth, the ancient Egyptian god Atum story, or the Genesis creation narrative.

The Osiris myth is the most elaborate and influential story in ancient Egyptian mythology.

The myth is integral to the Egyptian conceptions of kingship and succession, conflict between order and disorder and, especially, death and the afterlife.

It also expresses the essential character of each of the four deities at its center, and many elements of their worship in ancient Egyptian religion were derived from the myth.

Parts of the myth appear in a wide variety of Egyptian texts, from funerary texts and magical spells to short stories.

The story is, therefore, more detailed and more cohesive than any other ancient Egyptian myth.

Yet no Egyptian source gives a full account of the myth, and the sources vary widely in their versions of events.

Through these writings, the Osiris myth persisted after knowledge of most ancient Egyptian beliefs was lost, and it is still well known today.

The myth of Osiris was very important in ancient Egyptian religion and was popular among ordinary people.

With this widespread appeal, the myth appears in more ancient texts than any other myth and in an exceptionally broad range of Egyptian literary styles.

The earliest mentions of the Osiris myth are in the Pyramid Texts, the first Egyptian funerary texts, which appeared on the walls of burial chambers in pyramids at the end of the Fifth Dynasty, during the 25th century BC.

The most complete ancient Egyptian account of the myth is the Great Hymn to Osiris, an inscription from the Eighteenth Dynasty ( c. 1550 – 1292 BC ) that gives the general outline of the entire story but includes little detail.

Ancient Greek and Roman writers, who described Egyptian religion late in its history, recorded much of the Osiris myth.

In the early 2nd century AD, Plutarch wrote the most complete ancient account of the myth in De Iside et Osiride, an analysis of Egyptian religious beliefs.

For instance, De Iside et Osiride includes many interpretations of Egyptian belief that are influenced by various Greek philosophies, and its account of the myth contains portions with no known parallel in Egyptian tradition.

The cohesive account by Plutarch, which deals mainly with this portion of the myth, differs in many respects from the known Egyptian sources.

In Egyptian accounts, however, the penis of Osiris is found intact, and the only close parallel with this part of Plutarch's story is in " The Tale of Two Brothers ", a folk tale from the New Kingdom with similarities to the Osiris myth.

Here, two of the separate forms of Horus that exist in Egyptian tradition have been given distinct positions within Plutarch's version of the myth.

This is another unusual circumstance, for in Egyptian myth, gods and humans are normally separate.

The Lower Egyptian followers of Horus then forcibly reunified the land, inspiring the myth of Horus ' triumph, before Upper Egypt, now led by Horus worshippers, became prominent again at the start of the Early Dynastic Period.

In his Fabularum Liber ( or Fabulae ), Gaius Julius Hyginus recorded the myth that Italus was a son of Penelope and Telegonus.

Roman myth and history reinforced this value by recounting tales of figures such as Gaius Mucius Scaevola, who in a founding legend of the Republic demonstrated his seriousness and determination to the Etruscan king Lars Porsenna by holding his right hand in a fire.

In Eclogue 10, Virgil caps his book by inventing a new myth of poetic authority and origin: he replaces Theocritus ' Sicily and old bucolic hero, the impassioned oxherd Daphnis, with the impassioned voice of his contemporary Roman friend, the elegiac poet Gaius Cornelius Gallus, imagined dying of love in Arcadia.