Its connection with Ares, perhaps based on a false etymology, is purely etiological myth.

An etiological myth is a myth intended to explain a name or create a mythic history for a place or family.

An etiological myth, or origin myth, is a myth intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomena, proper names and the like.

This seems also implicated in the epic of the hieros gamos or sacred marriage of Enki and Ninhursag ( above ), which seems an etiological myth of the fertilisation of the dry ground by the coming of irrigation water ( from Sumerian a, ab, water or semen ).

An etiological myth can be a " reverse eponym " in the sense that a legendary character is invented in order to explain a term, such as the nymph Pirene ( mythology ), who according to myth was turned into Pirene's Fountain.

According to an etiological Hawaiian myth, the breadfruit originated from the sacrifice of the war god Kū.

Some Biblical scholars view this as an etiological myth created in hindsight to explain the tribe's name and connect it to the other tribes in the Israelite confederation.

When Halirrhotius, son of Poseidon, raped her ( or merely attempted to ), Ares killed him, a crime for which he was tried in a court, the first trial in history, which took place on the hill near the Acropolis of Athens named Areopagus, named, according to this etiological myth, after Ares.

In the etiological myth that accounted for the origin of rituals propitiating the daimon of Epopeus, it was told that Zeus impregnated Antiope, who, being the wife of Nycteus, fled in shame to Epopeus, king of Sicyon, abandoning her children, Amphion and Zethus.

Cook, saw in the myth of Apemosyne an historical element reflecting the relationship between Minoan Crete and Rhodes, as well as a possible etiological aspect explaining an ancient Rhodian custom involving human sacrifice.

The story of Abraham and Isaac ( Genesis 22 ) is an example of an etiological myth explaining the abolition of human sacrifice.

This may be less historical fact and more etiological myth, invented to explain the Servilian cognomen " Ahala "/" Axilla ", which means " armpit " and is probably of Etruscan origin.

The etiological myth explaining how Athens acquired this name through the legendary contest between Poseidon and Athena was described by Herodotus, Apollodorus, Ovid, Plutarch, Pausanias and others.

" Some archeologists and biblical scholars have suggested that the Biblical account of the conquest of Ai derives from an etiological myth-a type of tale which " explains the origin of a custom, state of affairs, or natural feature in the human or divine world ."< ref >" myth.

The Manciple, a purchasing agent for a law court, tells a fable about Phoebus Apollo and his pet crow, which is both an etiological myth explaining the crow's black feathers, and a moralistic injunction against Gossip.

Pausanias gives an etiological myth on the founding of the shrine:

Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).

It can be argued that the first toponymists were the storytellers and poets who explained the origin of specific place names as part of their tales ; sometimes place-names served as the basis for the etiological legends.

They may or may not be symptomatic, and their etiological significance for back pain is controversial.

They may or may not be symptomatic, and their etiological significance for back pain is controversial.

* Creation myths ( also called etiological myths ) explain the origins of natural phenomena and human institutions.

While Delphi is actually related to the word (" womb "), many etiological myths are similarly based on folk etymology ( the term " Amazon ", for example ).

Such tales are common in folklore and mythology ( where they are known as etiological myths — see etiology ).

This etiological eponym served to account for the Greek ethnic name Lydoi ( Λυδοί ).

An etiological myth-element, to account for the name Cypselus ( cypsele ( κυψἐλη ) " chest ") accounted how Labda then hid the baby in a chest, and when the men had composed themselves and returned to kill it, they could not find it.

The etiological agent was named by him as Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and was first grown by Hayflick on a medium he developed and that bears his name.

Some of the Hyantes are said to have emigrated to isolated and pastoral Phocis, where they founded Hyampolis, or at least that gave a good etiological explanation for the city's name.

An etiological Babylonian story that was later incorporated into Greek and Roman mythology attributes the reddish purple color of the white mulberry ( Morus alba ) fruits to the tragic deaths of the lovers Pyramus and Thisbe.

All creation myths are in one sense etiological because they attempt to explain how the world was formed and where humanity came from.

There was some conflict between Neisser and Hansen, Hansen as discoverer of the bacillus and Neisser as identifier of it as the etiological agent.

These critics regard this part of the manna narrative as an etiological supernature story designed to explain the origin of Shabbat observance, which in reality was probably pre-Mosaic.

The etiological agent was first thought to be a virus, but Hayflick showed that it was, in fact, a mycoplasma, a member of the smallest free-living class of microorganisms.

For example, Microsporum audouinii was the predominant etiological agent in North America and Europe until the 1950s, but now Trichophyton tonsurans is more common in the USA, and becoming more common in Europe and the United Kingdom.

In June 1982, a report of a group of cases amongst gay men in Southern California suggested that a sexually transmitted infectious agent might be the etiological agent, and the syndrome was initially termed " GRID ", or gay-related immune deficiency.

In January 1985 a number of more detailed reports were published concerning LAV and HTLV-III, and by March it was clear that the viruses were the same, were from the same source, and were the etiological agent of AIDS.

The glossary survives, in part or whole, in at least six manuscripts: The work may have been included in the Saltair Chaisil " Psalter of Cashel ", a now lost manuscript compilation which is thought to have contained various genealogical and etiological lore relating to Munster.

Apart from infections, there are some other diseases where impaired chemotaxis is the primary etiological factor, as in Chediak-Higashi syndrome where giant intracellular vesicles inhibit normal migration of cells.

This episode, which is not known from Egyptian sources, gives an etiological explanation for a cult of Isis and Osiris that existed in Byblos in Plutarch's time and possibly as early as the New Kingdom.

* Cancer is included in the differential diagnosis ( elucidated by biopsy ), Helicobacter pylori as the etiological factor making it 3 to 6 times more likely to develop stomach cancer from the ulcer.

This has led to the hypothesis of sympathoadrenal hyperactivity ( results from removing tonic inhibition from the sympathetic nervous system ) as an etiological mechanism for NMS.

Gardner disagreed with criticism of PAS as overly simplistic, stating that while there are a wide variety of causes on why a child may become alienated from a parent, the primary etiological factor in cases of PAS is the brainwashing parent, and that otherwise, there is no PAS.