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.

An etiological myth of their origins, expanding upon their etymology — the name in Classical Greek was interpreted as " ant-people ", from μυρμηδών ( murmedon ) " ant's nest " and that from μύρμηξ ( murmex ) " ant " — was first mentioned by Ovid, in Metamorphoses: in Ovid's telling, King Aeacus of Aegina, father of Peleus, pleaded with Zeus to populate his country after a terrible plague.

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.

" 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:

The etiological narrative explaining the cache of human remains led to the cult of an entire Roman legion, the legendary Theban Legion, martyred at the spot, when this entirely Christian legion refused to sacrifice to the Emperor Maximian and were put to death, by decimation, one out of ten at a time, until all were martyred.

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

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.

" In the chapter, Becker responds to critics who argue that labeling theory fails to provide an etiological explanation of deviance or an explanation of how individuals come to commit deviant acts in the first place.

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

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.

One proposal to resolve this difficulty holds that the account of Ai's conquest in the Book of Joshua is not meant to be historical, but etiological ; that is, the writers of the Bible noted the presence of a great, impressive local ruin ( the remains of the Early Bronze city ) and sought to explain this destruction in terms of a legendary ancestor.

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

a ) The transition between a dominant system designed for acute infectious pathology to a system designed for chromic degenerative pathology without any specific etiological therapy.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

Plantinga seeks to defend this view of proper function against alternative views of proper function proposed by other philosophers which he groups together as ' naturalistic ' including the ' functional generalization ' view of John Pollock, the evolutionary / etiological account provided by Ruth Millikan, and a dispositional view held by John Bigelow and Robert Pargetter.

In 1984, after the confirmation of the etiological agent of AIDS by scientists at the U. S. National Institutes of Health and the Pasteur Institute, the United States Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler declared that a vaccine would be available within two years.

While the etiology of conduct disorder is complicated by an intricate interplay of biological and environmental factors, identifying etiological mechanisms is crucial for obtaining accurate assessment and implementing effective treatment.

While it is commonly stated that lateral epicondylitis is caused by repetitive microtrauma / overuse, this is a speculative etiological theory with limited scientific support that is likely overstated.

He is mentioned in an etiological passage by Diodorus of Sicily, and has become a symbol of Messina.

One etiological theory of depression is Aaron T. Beck's cognitive theory of depression.

Usually appearing as a trickster, a culture hero or both, Coyote also often appears in creation myths and etiological myths.

And in this sense they go beyond etiological myths which mean to explain specific features in religious rites, natural phenomena or cultural life.

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.

The surface / phonological distinction is only descriptive, and devoid of any etiological assumption as to the underlying brain mechanisms.

Kraepelin's contributions were to a large extent marginalized throughout a good part of the twentieth century, during the success of Freudian etiological theories.

" The etiological nature of the narrative ( see Genre above ) is considered typical of J.

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.