This myth is also recorded in an 18th-century Swedish folksong called Hammar-Hemtningen ( the taking of the hammer ), where Freyja is called Miss Frojenborg, " den väna solen " ( the fair sun ).

The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus recorded an alternative version of this myth in his Gesta Danorum.

The origins of the Olympics and Marathon running are shrouded by myth and legend, though the first recorded game took place in 776 BCE.

In a late Greek myth, recorded in Eustathius ' commentary on Homer and John Tzetzes, Heracles encountered Scylla during a journey to Sicily and slew her.

The creation myth of Shinto is recorded in the ca.

The genesis myth and early recorded history of the Sinhalese is chronicled in two documents, the Mahavamsa, written in Pāli around the 4th century CE, and the much later Chulavamsa ( probably penned in the 13 century CE by the Buddhist monk Dhammakitti ).

Episodes from the myth were also recorded in writings intended as entertainment.

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

A popular urban myth at Oxford University states that Wilson's grade in his final examination was the highest ever recorded up to that date.

Its blurred ( an essentially Protestant ) sense of a non-historical narrative or myth was first recorded in 1613.

As in the soteriological Greek myth ( recorded by Appollodorus, et al.

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

According to the myth recorded by Juan de Betanzos, Viracocha rose from Lake Titicaca ( or sometimes the cave of Pacaritambo ) during the time of darkness to bring forth light.

* the Port Phillip myth ( recorded as told to Robert Russell in 1850 ), describing Port Phillip Bay as once dry land, and the course of the Yarra River being once different, following what was then Carrum Carrum swamp.

In 1988 Australian anthropologist Kenneth Maddock assembled several versions of this ' Captain Cook ' myth as recorded from a number of Aboriginal groups around Australia.

Soifer speaks of " the enigma " of Vishnu's Narasimha avatara and comments that " how the myth arrived at its rudimentary form recorded in the Mahabharata, and where the figure of the man-lion came from remain unsolved mysteries.

It is part of the traditional lands of the Gurabana Gungandji people, who recorded its formation in myth, and was used as a hunting and fishing ground.

Tamuramaro is reputedly buried at Shōgun-zuka, and his spirit is said to be guarding Kyoto still ; but even if part of that tale is only myth, the recorded final resting place of the old warrior was near the village of Kurusu ( Kurusu-mura 栗栖村 ) in Yamashiro's Uji district.

The Tiamat myth is one of the earliest recorded versions of the Chaoskampf, the battle between a culture hero and a chthonic or aquatic monster, serpent or dragon.

Biffy Clyro recorded their second album, The Vertigo Of Bliss, there-and, according to an urban myth, took just 24 hours to do so.

As Williams had expected Stephens's essay to reinforce the myth, he was not willing to award the prize to Stephens and, it is recorded, " matters became turbulent ".

St Albans also had a legend, recorded in John Norden's Speculum Britanniae ( 1596 ) that a ruined marble tomb of Mandeville ( represented cross-legged and in armour, with sword and shield ) once stood in the abbey ; this may be true of " Mangevilayn " or it may be a mere myth.

However the city archives do not hold any letter relating to the motto, and Grey ( 2005 ) argues that the Elizabethan origin of the motto may be no more than a local myth, since it is not recorded in contemporary chronicles, and that it may have been adopted at the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy to compensate for the city's less than total loyalty to the crown during the English Civil War.

Herodotus recorded the Pontic Greek myth that the Agathyrsi were named after a legendary ancestor Agathyrsus, an oldest son of Hercules and the monster Echidna.

But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

The private detective must rely, as the Youngest Son or Trickster Hero does in primitive myth, on his wits.

The popularity of local color literature before the Spanish-American War, the steady currency of the Lincoln myth, the increased emphasis on the frontier West in our mass media are cases in point.

The Doubleday myth appears to have rested solely on the testimony of one elderly admirer who was later committed to an insane asylum.

* In the myth of Psyche and Eros, Psyche is given ambrosia by Hermes upon her completion of the quests set by Aphrodite and her acceptance on Olympus.

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

Other early Christian writers wrote about Atlantis, though they had mixed views on whether it once existed or was an untrustworthy myth of pagan origin.

A Hebrew treatise on computational astronomy dated to AD 1378 / 79, alludes to the Atlantis myth in a discussion concerning the determination of zero points for the calculation of longitude:

According to the standard modern text on the work, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth of Aktaion: Literary and Iconographic Studies, the most likely original version of the myth is that Actaeon was the hunting companion of the goddess who, seeing her naked in her sacred spring, attempts to force himself on her.

The myth of the " Curse of King Zvonimir " is based on the legend of his assassination.

The myth has Charybdis lying on one side of a narrow channel of water.

Lillie notes that, contrary to the nature of the myth, cattle are well aware of their surroundings and are very difficult to sneak up on, due to excellent senses of both smell and hearing.

Shamanism | Shaman's drum depicting Tungusic creation myth | Tungus cosmology, with the World Tree at center joining underworld, earth and heaven ( based on a 1924 drawing from the original drum )

Citing Paul Ricoeur, McGinn argues that a distinctive characteristic of the Hebrew Bible is its " reinterpretation of myth on the basis of history ".

According to Every, one example may be " the myth of St. George " and other stories about saints battling dragons, which were " modelled no doubt in many cases on older representations of the creator and preserver of the world in combat with chaos ".

In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.

In popular myth, the word ' documentary ' was coined by Scottish documentarian John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana ( 1926 ), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926, written by " The Moviegoer " ( a pen name for Grierson ).

Both are based on the myth of Daedalus and Icarus flying on wax wings.

The stab-in-the-back myth ( German: )< ref > Despite the similarity of the German word Legende and the English word " legend ", " stab-in-the-back < u > myth </ u >" is the preferred term in English .</ ref > is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy.

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Questioned this myth of the presence of meaning in itself (" objective ") and / or for itself (" subjective ") Derrida will start a long deconstruction of all texts where conceptual oppositions are put to work in the actual construction of meaning and values based on the subordination of the movement of " differance ":

In one myth, Enlil gives advice to his son, the god Ninurta, advising him on a strategy to slay the demon Asag.