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The account, which explains how the snake crushes and devours tigers, is full of popular misconceptions, but was much read at the time, and so gave rise to the myth of the anaconda of Ceylon.
In the study of mythology the term " myth " refers to a traditional story, often regarded as sacred, which explains how the world and its inhabitants came to have their present form.
The scientific community regards the Loch Ness Monster as a modern-day myth, and explains sightings as a mix of hoaxes and wishful thinking.
The Greek myth of Orchis explains the origin of the plants.
M. L. West writes that the story of Pandora and her jar is from a pre-Hesiodic myth, and that this explains the confusion and problems with Hesiod's version and its inconclusiveness.
In a myth passed down among the Iroquois, The World on the Turtle's Back, explains the origin of the land in which a tree of life is described.
An origin myth explains the emergence of the name " Cambodia " as resulting from conquest of a naga princess by a Kambuja lord named Kaundinya: the descendants of their union are the Khmer people.
According to the myth, every time he conquered another tribe, he incorporated his defeated enemy's emblem into his own, thus explains why the dragon appears to have features of various animals.
The myth cycle explains the origin of several traditions, including mourning customs, beliefs about the afterlife, and the creation of the sacred plant asemaa ( tobacco ).
This myth is from Kiribati, and explains why the I-Kiribati migrated to Kiribati from Samoa.
" 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 poet Ovid, who wrote during the reign of Augustus, records the best-known myth that explains the association of the cypress with grief.
The 1985 publication is not readily available from any U. S. library, which explains why Tkacz's finding was easy to miss as the earliest known " in print " rebuttal of the Baltimore origin myth.
This explains the historical backdrop for the creation of the myth, the inconsistencies of the mythology, and the linguistic research that refutes any Semitic origins.
Shelley's own introduction to the play explains his intentions behind the work and he defends the artistic freedom he has taken in his adaptation of Aeschylus ' myth:
The myth explains why the planet Venus is seen during the morning and evening.
E. von der Osten-Sacken describes evidence for a weakly developed but nevertheless existing cult for Ereshkigal ; she cites aspects of similarity between the goddesses Ishtar and Ereshkigal from textual sources – for example they are called " sisters " in the myth of " Inanna's descent into the nether world " – and she finally explains the unique doubled rod-and-ring symbol in the following way: " Ereshkigal would be shown here at the peak of her power, when she had taken the divine symbols from her sister and perhaps also her identifying lions ".

myth and connection
Yet Janda ( 2010 ) considers the connection with " foam " genuine, identifying the myth of Aphrodite rising out of the waters after Cronus defeats Uranus as a mytheme of Proto-Indo-European age.
Its connection with Ares, perhaps based on a false etymology, is purely etiological myth.
In connection with this interpretation, David and Margaret Leeming describe Genesis 1 as a " demythologized myth ", and John L. McKenzie asserts that the writer of Genesis 1 has " excised the mythical elements " from his creation story.
Sarah Morris demonstrated ( Morris 2004 ) that donkeys ' ears were a Bronze Age royal attribute, borne by King Tarkasnawa ( Greek Tarkondemos ) of Mira, on a seal inscribed in both Hittite cuneiform and Luwian hieroglyphs: in this connection, the myth would appear for Greeks, to justify the exotic attribute.
Titles like " Fedra West " ( also called Ballad of a Bounty Hunter ) and Johnny Hamlet signify the connection to the Greek myth and possibly the plays by Euripides and Racine and the play by William Shakespeare, respectively.
Hippolyte Delehaye, ( in his Preface to The Legends of the Saints: An Introduction to Hagiography, 1907 ) distinguished legend from myth: " The legend, on the other hand, has, of necessity, some historical or topographical connection.
Regardless of the connection between the herb and the birth abnormalities, it is possible these rare birth defects may have contributed to the myth.
" This myth is Greek interpretation of mystifying Minoan ritual in an attempt to reconcile their Father Zeus with the Divine Child of Crete ; the ritual itself we may never recover with clarity, but it is not impossible that a connection exists between the Kouretes ' weapons at the cave and the dedicated weapons at Arkalochori ", Emily Vermeule observed.
Yet there is no trace of a Semitic deity directly connected with Adonis, and no trace in Semitic languages of any specific mythemes connected with his Greek myth ; both Greek and Near Eastern scholars have questioned the connection ( Burkert, p 177 note 6 bibliography ).
A myth reported as " Egyptian " in Gaius Julius Hyginus ' Poetic Astronomy that would seem to be invented to justify a connection of Pan with Capricorn says that when Aegipan — that is Pan in his goat-god aspect — was attacked by the monster Typhon, he dove into the Nile ; the parts above the water remained a goat, but those under the water transformed into a fish.
Often when his name is attached to a mythic prophecy, it is introduced simply to supply a personality to the generic example of a seer, not by any inherent connection of Tiresias with the myth: thus it is Tiresias who tells Amphytrion of Zeus and Alcmena and warns the mother of Narcissus that the boy will thrive as long as he never knows himself.
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.
It is possible that a connection exists between Keres and the Valkyries of Norse myth.
Ovid's treatment of the Icarus myth and its connection with that of Phaëton influenced the mythological tradition in English literature as received and interpreted by major writers such as Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, and Joyce.
In the myth, Gilgamesh seeks to establish his name with the assistance of Utu, because of his connection with the cedar mountain.
The connection Demos = fat is consistent with the notion that Agoracritus can refine his master at the end of the play by boiling him ( a notion that originates in the myth of Pelias, whose children boil him like an old ram in an attempt to rejuvenate him ).
In this connection, the Perseus and Andromeda myth was known throughout the Middle Ages from the influence of Ovid.
In this interpretation, there is a connection between the wolf of this tale and Sköll, the wolf in Norse myth that will swallow the personified Sun at Ragnarök, or Fenrir.
There are suggestions on a connection to the Celtic myth of Fionn mac Cumhaill.
But earlier in a philosophical creation myth Sanchuniathon has referred to great wind which merged with its parents and that connection was called Eros ' Desire ':
The connection of this myth with Enna naturally led to ( if it did not rather arise from ) the peculiar worship of the two goddesses Ceres and Proserpine in that city: and we learn from Cicero that there was a temple of Ceres of such great antiquity and sanctity that the Sicilians repaired thither with a feeling of religious awe, as if it were the goddess herself rather than her sanctuary that they were about to visit.
A popular urban myth says that the name was originally meant to be " Monkey Kong ", but was misspelled or misinterpreted due to a blurred fax or bad telephone connection.
There is another tenuous connection between Wales and Troy that has been disproven by historians but remains a resilient myth.
It is a myth that Canadians emerged from the war alienated from, and disillusioned with, the imperial connection.

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