According to Eliade, " eschatological myths " became prominent during the Middle Ages during " certain historical movements ".

According to Cynthia Stewart, during the Reformation, the Protestant reformers used " the founding myths of Christianity " to critique the church of their time.

According to Lorena Laura Stookey, many myths feature sacred mountains as " the sites of revelations ": " In myth, the ascent of the holy mountain is a spiritual journey, promising purification, insight, wisdom, or knowledge of the sacred ".

According to Sandra Frankiel, the records of " Jesus ' life and death, his acts and words " provide the " founding myths " of Christianity.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

According to one theory, myths began as allegories for natural phenomena: Apollo represents the sun, Poseidon represents water, and so on.

According to another theory, myths began as allegories for philosophical or spiritual concepts: Athena represents wise judgment, Aphrodite represents desire, etc.

According to one of the various myths about him, he founded Ife and dispatched his sons and daughters to establish similar kingdoms in other parts of what is today known as Yorubaland.

According to earlier myths, the office of the oracle was initially possessed by the goddesses Themis and Phoebe, and the site was initially sacred to Gaia.

According to modern myths the chastity belt was used as an anti-temptation device during the Crusades.

According to Vietnamese myths the first Vietnamese peoples descended from the Dragon Lord Lạc Long Quân and the Immortal Fairy Âu Cơ.

According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses ), a Roman poet writing in 8 AD, who was noted for accuracy regarding the Greek myths, Medusa alone had serpents in her hair, and he explained that this was due to Athena ( Roman Minerva ) cursing her.

One of the primary myths initially believed by communities facing environmental injustice is that the government is “ on our side .” According to Luke W. Cole, this myth is shared more widely among white Americans than among minorities, probably because minorities have historically faced several levels of governmental injustice.

According to the myths, this was the time when the Sacred first appeared, establishing the world's structure — myths claim to describe the primordial events that made society and the natural world be that which they are.

According to Eliade, this is one manifestation of the shaman's return to " the illud tempus described to us by the paradisiac myths ".

According to Eliade, Marxism " takes up and carries on one of the great eschatological myths of the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean world, namely: the redemptive part to be played by the Just ( the ' elect ', the ' anointed ', the ' innocent ', the ' missioners ', in our own days the proletariat ), whose sufferings are invoked to change the ontological status of the world.

According to Ellwood, the part of Eliade that felt attracted to the " freedom of new beginnings suggested by primal myths " is the same part that felt attracted to the Guard, with its almost mythological notion of a new beginning through a " national resurrection ".

According to some myths Meera's brother-in-law Vikramaditya, who later became king of Chittor, after Bhojraj's death, tried to harm Meera in many ways, such as:

According to the founding myths of Qin recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian by Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian, Feizi descended from the mythical Yellow Emperor and his grandson and successor Zhuanxu.

According to Korean and Japanese myths, a rabbit lives on the Moon making rice cakes ( Tteok-the Korean word for rice cakes in general, and mochi, a different type of a rice cake with red bean filling, in the Japanese myth ).

According to Rosenberg, " myths symbolize human experience and embody the spiritual values of a culture.

According to some versions of the myths about Shennong, he eventually died as a result of his researches into the properties of plants by experimenting upon his own body, after, in one of his tests, he ate the yellow flower of a weed that caused his intestines to rupture before he had time to swallow his antidotal tea: having thus given his life for humanity, he has since received special honor though his worship as the Medicine King.

According to Samten Karmay, Gesar arose as the hero of a society still thinly permeated by Buddhism, and the earlier myths associate him with pre-Buddhist beliefs like the mountain cult.

According to these same legends, his wife was suddenly possessed by some unknown gods.

According to native oral legends Fijians were also descendants of a nomadic tribe from Tanganika ( Tanzania ).

According to Mark Kurlansky, " Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident — usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …".

According to the Swedish naturalist and author Bengt Sjögren ( 1980 ), present day beliefs in lake monsters such as the Loch Ness Monster are associated with the old legends of kelpies.

According to Lt. Paul Gratz's account from 1909, indigenous legends of the Congo River Basin in modern day Zambia spoke of a creature known by native people as the " Nsanga ", which was said to inhabit the Lake Bangweulu region.

According to legend, Samoa shares the common Polynesian ancestor of Tagaloa ; according to many legends, Samoa was Tagaloa's first creation.

According to other legends, the children of Lilith are called Lilin.

According to his legends, Vajk was baptized a Christian by Saint Adalbert of Prague.

According to various legends, the tusks are formed either by the trails of mucus from the weeping girl or her long braids.

According to some legends, having regained control of her son, Drahomíra set out to convert him to the old pagan religion.

According to other legends, she was a Christian herself ; however, very little is known about her rule.

According to one of the legends, Andrew reached the future location of Kiev and foretold the foundation of a great Christian city .< ref >

According to these legends, he founded a state known as Gija Joseon in Northwest Korea during the Gojoseon period of ancient Korean history.

According to their legends, the Mexica tribe place of origin was Aztlán.

According to Balt legends, the playing of a girl giantess named Neringa on the seashore formed the Curonian Spit (" neria, nerge, neringia " means land which is diving up and down like a swimmer ).

According to the Polish version of legends: three brothers Lech, Czech and Rus were exploring the wilderness to find a place to settle.

According to some legends Indract of Glastonbury was buried in Shepton.

According to later legends ( c. 400 BC ), on account of his inflexible integrity he was made one of the judges of the dead in the lower world, together with Aeacus and Minos.

According to other legends it contained in its prow a magical piece of timber from the sacred forest of Dodona, which could speak and render prophecies.

According to legends, when Sita's swaymvar was introduced Ravana also had gone and he came before Lord Rama but some of the officials and on Sita's instructions they told him that his sister was being kidnapped. On hearing this Ravana immediately departed from the swaymavar and arrived at his castle only to found that her sister was well and sound.

According to historical legends, the San Luis Rey Mission flocks were robbed by a small band of Indians in the late 18th century.

According to records and legends, Louis Depuy ( the owner of the Hotel De Paris ) was also a newspaper editor for the town.

According to some legends, he would have been the true and rightful heir to the throne of Camelot, after the reign of King Arthur.

According to one of several legends, the town was given its name by Colonel Samuel Chapman, whose family owned of land in Southern Maryland, including what would become the areas of La Plata and Port Tobacco.

According to local legends the name stems from confrontations between native Americans and early settlers during the 1850s and 60s.