Virginal Artemis was worshipped as a fertility / childbirth goddess in some places, assimilating Ilithyia, since, according to some myths, she assisted her mother in the delivery of her twin.

Myths indicate that Apollo killed the chthonic serpent Python, Pythia in older myths, but according to some later accounts his wife, Pythia, who lived beside the Castalian Spring.

Although Magyar tribes only began to settle in the geographical area of present-day Hungary in the very end of the 9th century, some 450 years after the dissolution of the Hunnic tribal confederation, Hungarian prehistory includes Magyar origin myths, which may have preserved some elements of historical truth.

In some myths, Hephaestus built himself a " wheeled chair " or chariot with which to move around, thus helping him overcome his lameness while demonstrating his skill to the other gods.

While some Old Norse kennings are relatively transparent, many depend on a knowledge of specific myths or legends.

The Italian geologist Luigi Piccardi has proposed geological explanations for some ancient legends and myths.

Instead of dividing their traditional stories into myths, legends, and folktales, some cultures divide them into two categories, one that roughly corresponds to folktales, and one that combines myths and legends.

Until the 1970s this makes no substantial difference to human history, beyond some minor differences in myths.

The information in the series is generally spurious and it also plays to some of the myths and legends rampant during the musician's lifetime.

This and some other examples of apparent comparison between Greek myths and the " key characters " in the Old Testament / Torah have led recent biblical scholars to suggest a Hellenistic influence in the composition of the earlier portions of the Hebrew Bible.

He is more often regarded as the tamer of horses, but in some myths he is their father, either by spilling his seed upon a rock or by mating with a creature who then gave birth to the first horse.

In contrast, lost lands are islands or continents believed by some to have existed during prehistory, often associated with ancient myths and legends ; and vanishing islands are islands that are submerged during high tide.

Some religious organizations and practitioners believe that some or all of their traditional stories are not only sacred and " true ", but also historically accurate and divinely revealed, and that calling such stories " myths " disrespects their special status.

Modern day clergy and practitioners within some religious movements have no problem classifying the religion's sacred stories as " myths ".

It consists of myths and belief statements excerpted from — and, in some cases, synthesized from a number of excerpts from — both Biblical and non-Biblical Jewish texts.

In some myths, he's disguised as King Solomon himself, while in more frequently heard versions he's disguised as a falcon, calling himself Gavyn ( Gavinn or Gavin ), one of King Solomon ’ s trusted friends.

Cronus threw the severed testicles into the Sea ( Thalassa ), around which foam developed and transformed into the goddess of Love, Aphrodite ( which is why in some myths, Aphrodite was daughter of Uranus and the goddess Thalassa ).

These myths also express some hope that the idyllic state of affairs they describe is not irretrievably and irrevocably lost to mankind, that it can be regained in some way or other.

People suffering from Down's Syndrome have been suggested by some scholars to have been possible originators of werewolf myths.

Besides Adonis, other myths that appear in his work are those of Hyacinthus and the Cyclops ; to judge from references in the Epitaph on Bion, which frequently alludes to Bion's work, he also wrote a poem on Orpheus, to which some of the extant fragments may have belonged.

The myths refer to a beast with one horn that can only be tamed by a virgin ; subsequently, some writers translated this into an allegory for Christ's relationship with the Virgin Mary.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

The gravel was the bed of an ancient river, buckled in some prehistoric upheaval of earth.

He seemed very pleased with himself, as though some intricate scheme was working out exactly as he had planned.

There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

The code, which had probably something to do with sex or some other interest, Nicolas was determined to find out and put to use.

While his comrades cocked the trap, that one behaved as if it was some dull maneuver.

The marine was sprawled some thirty yards away, one arm extended.

And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.

Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.

But he was `` afraid of the future -- he would in fact welcome a way back to social integration, a functional art of some kind ''.