Whether or not Plato's tale of the lost continent of Atlantis is true, skeptics concede that the myth may have some foundation in a great tsunami of ancient times.

77 AD ), Pliny provides a foundation myth for the Celtic settlement of Cisalpine Gaul in which a Helvetian named Helico plays the role of culture hero.

One foundation myth relates to Jumong, who received barley seeds from two doves sent by his mother after establishing the kingdom of Goguryeo.

The origin myth of the kingdom of Alba traced its foundation to the supposed destruction of Pictland by Kenneth MacAlpin, and its kings were chosen from the male line descendants of Kenneth, with the possible exception of the shadowy Eochaid, said to be Kenneth's daughter's son.

In an archaic Athenian foundation myth, Athena won the patronship of Attica from Poseidon with the gift of the olive.

No trace of them remains today, but this likely commemorates the Cornish foundation myth, being the point, Lam Goemagot-the Giant's Leap-from which the Giant was cast into the sea by the hero Corin.

Mircea Eliade, a professor of the history of religions, declared that myth did not hold religion back, that myth was an essential foundation of religion, and that eliminating myth would eliminate a piece of the human psyche.

Thuggee trace their origin to the battle of Kali against Raktabija ; however, their foundation myth departs from Brahminical versions of the Puranas.

The story of kingdom moves from foundation myth to something nearer to history with the reports of the death of Comgall mac Domangairt around 540 and of his brother Gabrán around 560.

Most historians regard the foundation of Sussex with Ælle landing with three ships and three sons as a myth.

Romulus and Remus are the twin brothers and central characters of Rome's foundation myth.

The myth was fully developed into something like an " official ", chronological version in the Late Republican and early Imperial era ; Roman historians dated the city's foundation to between 758 and 728 BC, and Plutarch reckoned the twins ' birth year as c. 771 BC.

A Roman text of the late Imperial era, Origo gentis Romanae ( The origin of the Roman people ) is dedicated to the many " more or less bizarre ", often contradictory variants of Rome's foundation myth, including versions in which Remus founds a city named Remuria, five miles from Rome, and outlives his brother Romulus.

The foundation myth is believed to have been reenacted every other year during the Agronia.

Each Boeotian city had its own distinct foundation myth for it, but the pattern was much the same: the arrival of Dionysus, resistance to him, flight of the women to a mountain, the killing of Dionysus ’ persecutor, and eventual reconciliation with the god.

The myth of Danaus is a foundation legend ( or re-foundation legend ) of Argos, one of the foremost Mycenaean cities of the Peloponnesus.

According to the foundation myth, the founder of Salamis is said to be Teucer, son of Telamon, who could not return home after the Trojan war because he had failed to avenge his brother Ajax.

There is otherwise little direct evidence to support the foundation myth.

Scholars have attempted to draw a connection between the episode of the castration of Attis and the ritual mutilation of the Galli as a reflection in myth of a secondary ritual action or conversely, as the mythical foundation of a ritual action.

Later Roman scholars connected her to the goddess Fauna, a central figure in Latium's aristocratic foundation myth, which was thus re-embroidered as a Roman moral fable.

According to the foundation myth given in the Shahnameh, King Firēdūn (= Avestan Θraētaona ) had three sons, Salm, Tūr and Īraj, among whom he divided the world: Asia Minor was given to Salm, Turan to Tur and Iran to Īraj.

Critic Steve Turner suggests that Plant's early and continued experiences in Wales served as the foundation for his broader interest in the mythologies he revisits in his lyrics ( including those myth systems of Tolkien and the Norse ).

The foundation of Christian theology is expressed in the early Christian ecumenical creeds which contain claims predominantly accepted by followers of the Christian faith.

His ambitions were expressed in a time when nothing was clear: we did not know if mathematics could have a rigorous foundation at all.

St Paul in his Epistle to the Romans written after AD 44, expressed his intention to avoid " building on someone else's foundation ", by visiting Spain, suggesting that he knew of no previous evangelization in Hispania.

And sure enough, in the late 1940s, at two or three board meetings shortly before his death, he expressed the idea of starting a new institution .” By 2005, the foundation had donated most of its remaining financial resources to the college, providing Olin with an endowment of about 460 million dollars.

The Christian thinker James W. Sire defines a worldview as " a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions ( assumptions which may be true, partially true, or entirely false ) which we hold ( consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently ) about the basic construction of reality, and that provides the foundation on which we live and move and have our being.

The vision expressed in this work was the foundation for the creation of the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism, which was characterized by a philosophy of interpenetration.

John Locke's chapter XXVII " On Identity and Diversity " in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689 ) has been said to be one of the first modern conceptualizations of consciousness as the repeated self-identification of oneself, through which moral responsibility could be attributed to the subject — and therefore punishment and guiltiness justified, as critics such as Nietzsche would point out, affirming "... the psychology of conscience is not ' the voice of God in man '; it is the instinct of cruelty ... expressed, for the first time, as one of the oldest and most indispensable elements in the foundation of culture.

New Zealand was represented at both the conference and the Convention, although its delegates expressed that it would be unlikely to join the Federation at its foundation, but it would likely be interested in doing so at a later date.

Both Violeta Chamorro and Arnoldo Aleman publicly expressed support for bringing Casa Alianza to Nicaragua, and ultimately Covenant House moved for its foundation.

The writings of Dejacque could be seen as one who " up until the foundation of anarchist communism properly so-called, expressed in a coherent way the radical communism which emerged in France from the 1840s as a critical appropriation of Fourierism, Owenism and neo-Babouvism.

A lower court ruled in favor of the college district and the foundation, but on June 23, 2005, the California Court of Appeals ruled that the sale of KOCE was illegal, since the offer was modified after the end of bidding and because the value of the bid was not expressed in net present value terms.

The session concluded with Thatcher's writing of a letter addressed to the PRC Premier Zhao Ziyang ; in it, she expressed Britain's willingness to explore arrangements optimising the future prospects of Hong Kong while utilising the PRC's proposals as a foundation.

Its king, Gung Ye, whose leadership helped foundation of the kingdom but began to refer himself as the Buddha, began to persecute people who expressed their opposition against his religious arguments.

* On Saint Nicholas Day ( 6 December ), the Niklasmarkt ( Nicholas Market ) commemorates the Niklasspende, a medieval foundation for the poor.

He was soon replaced by another legate in 1740, and he retired to Piacenza, where in 1730 Clement XII appointed him administrator of the hospital of San Lazzaro, a medieval foundation for the benefit of lepers.

While the absence of a perpendicular city plan in medieval Stockholm seem do indicate a spontaneous growth, it is known German merchants invited by Birger jarl played an important role in the foundation of the city.

The scientific revolution was built upon the foundation of ancient Greek learning and science in the middle ages, as it had been elaborated and further developed by Roman / Byzantine science and medieval Islamic science.

The word is a Latin term meaning “ the three ways ” or “ the three roads ” forming the foundation of a medieval liberal arts education.

The year 383 denotes a significant point in Welsh history, remembered in literature and considered to be the foundation point of several medieval royal dynasties.

The medieval city is a foundation of the Zähringer ruling family, which rose to power in Upper Burgundy in the 12th century.

* Trinity College Kirk, Edinburgh, also known as Trinity College Church, all that remains of a medieval collegiate foundation

This sophisticated medieval form of government was handed over to the Normans and was the foundation of further developments.

The medieval town is set in almond-shaped around the hill foundation, which by its privileged position as the only elevation in the plain of Álava, became a defensive stronghold coveted by the kingdoms of Navarra and Castilla during the 11th and 12th centuries.

Like the other early medieval universities ( Bologna, Oxford, Salamanca, Cambridge, Padua ), the University of Paris was already well established before it received a specific foundation act from the Church in 1200.

In one example, Pugin contrasted a medieval monastic foundation, where monks fed and clothed the needy, grew food in the gardens – and gave the dead a decent burial – with " a panopticon workhouse where the poor were beaten, half starved and sent off after death for dissection.

The original medieval foundation set up by Adam de Brome, under the patronage of Edward II, was called the House or Hall of the Blessed Mary at Oxford.

Much of the Stanegate provided the foundation for the Carelgate ( or Carlisle Road ), a medieval road running from Corbridge market place and joining the Stanegate west of Corstopitum.

Widespread in 10th century Anglo-Saxon England, minsters declined in importance with the systematic introduction of parishes and parish churches from the 11th century onwards ; but remained a title of diginity in later medieval England for instances where a cathedral, monastery, collegiate church or parish church had originated with an Anglo-Saxon foundation.

The medieval foundation of the cities of Munich and Landshut are directly connected with the building of bridges and the resulting conflicts concerning power and influence on the economy.

Similar town revolts led to the foundation of city-states throughout medieval Europe, such as in Russia ( Novgorod Republic, 12th century ), in Flanders ( Battle of Golden Spurs, 14th century ) in Switzerland ( the towns of the Old Swiss Confederacy, 14th century ), in Germany ( see the Hanseatic League, 14th-15th century ), and in Prussia ( Thirteen Years ' War, 15th century ).

During a storm in 1710 the medieval church collapsed, having had its foundation weakened by burials both inside and outside.

This religious foundation was one of the biggest hospitals in medieval England and was the focus of a large medieval cemetery which included a stone charnel house and mortuary chapel.

The settlement developed into a medieval market town, its growth prompted by the foundation of the influential and prosperous Keynsham Abbey, which had been founded by the Victorine congregation of canon regulars around 1170.

The Groningen shares much of its initial foundation with the Friesian, East Friesian and Alt-Oldenburger, and Holsteiner: small native farm horses and medieval destriers were influenced by popular Spanish, Neapolitan, and Arabian horses in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Just as Virgil, in the Aeneid, credited the founding of Ancient Rome to exiles from a defeated Troy, so later English writers such as William Caxton and Raphael Holinshed, adapting the medieval pseudo-history of the Welsh-Norman author Geoffrey of Monmouth, credited another band of Trojan exiles for the foundation of a British realm.

The foundation charter of Gloucester Abbey survives in a medieval register of the abbey. S70 It is not straightforward, but again is considered to have an authentic basis.