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 myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

Baseball historian George B. Kirsch has described the results of the Mills commission as a " myth ".

There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.

There is also the strange myth of the brothers Aegyptus and Danaus, sons of Belus, with the latter supposedly coming from Egypt, that Marianne Luban has suggested may date to this time.

During the past four hundred years, Virginia Dare has become a prominent figure in American myth and folklore, symbolizing different things to different groups of people.

This myth has Pheidippides running from Marathon to Athens after the battle, to announce the Greek victory with the word " Nenikēkamen!

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

The era has been called a golden age, but that was a myth created in the 1930s to lure tourists to a romantic era of tall ships and antiques.

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.

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

However, there is also a ditheistic theme within traditional Wicca, as the Horned God has dual aspects of bright and dark-relating to day / night, summer / winter-expressed as the Oak King and the Holly King, who in Wiccan myth and ritual are said to engage in battle twice a year for the hand of the Goddess, resulting in the changing seasons.

Since the Renaissance the myth of Diana has often been represented in the visual and dramatic arts, including the opera L ' arbore di Diana.

Reichspräsident Friedrich Ebert: ( 1923 ), as Provisional President of the Weimar Republic in 1919, he contributed to the myth, in telling home-coming veterans that “ no enemy has vanquished you ”.

Even provisional President Friedrich Ebert contributed to the myth when he saluted returning veterans with the oration that " no enemy has vanquished you " ( kein Feind hat euch überwunden!

Urban myth has it that the red suit only appeared after the Coca Cola company started an advertising campaign depicting a red suited Father Christmas in the 1930s.

For many years a popular myth has persisted that in the Japanese version of this film, Godzilla emerges as the winner.

As well, through the years, this myth has been misreported by various members of the media, and has been misreported by reputable news organizations such as The LA Times.

Glorantha has been, so far, the background for 2 board-games ( White Bear and Red Moon / Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods ), two role-playing games ( RuneQuest and HeroQuest ), one video game ( King of Dragon Pass ), one comic book series ( Path of the Damned ), five novels or collections of fiction ( King of Sartar by Greg Stafford, The Collected / Complete Griselda by Oliver Dickinson, Gloranthan Visions by various authors, The Widow's Tale and Eurhol's Vale & Other Tales by Penelope Love, and numerous pieces of myth and fiction created by the Glorantha community, featuring in magazines such as Tales of the Reaching Moon.

Yet, one modern scholar, reading between the lines, has described the work of Hecataeus as " a curious false start to history " because, despite its critical spirit, it failed to liberate history from myth.

He emphasizes the importance of the agrarian myth in American politics and life even after industrialization had revolutionized the American economy and life.

In the society in which it is told, a creation myth is usually regarded as conveying profound truths, metaphorically, symbolically and sometimes even in a historical or literal sense.

The Debate between sheep and grain is an example of an even earlier form of ex nihilo creation myth from ancient Sumer.

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.

To support the intended process of nation building even further, a vague myth of some common Germanic original language developed, and German dialectology began to name dialect groups after presumed and real groups of historic tribes having existed from BC to about 600 AD, from which they were assumed to have descended.

For certain purposes it assumed that all real Americans live in towns like this, and so great is the power of myth, even the born city-dweller is likely to believe vaguely that he too lives on this shady street, or comes from it, or is going to .”

Through the descriptions of Leo Africanus and even Ibn Battuta – despite his visit to the river – the myth connecting the Niger to the Nile persisted.

Тhe myth of Narcissus has inspired artists for at least two thousand years, even before the Roman poet Ovid featured a version in book III of his Metamorphoses.

Gerwarth ( 2007 ) shows that the Bismarck myth, built up predominantly during his years of retirement and even more stridently after his death, proved a powerful rhetorical and ideological tool.

Some think the myth even indicates that the ancient Greeks knew about the liver ’ s remarkable capacity for self-repair.

* 2004: Robert A. Segal, professor of theories of religion at the University of Lancaster, defines " myth " broadly as any story whose " main figures personalities -- divine, human, or even animal.

Further, in academic writing, though " myth " usually means a fundamental worldview story, even there it is occasionally ambiguous or clearly denotes " falsehood ", as in the " Christ myth theory ".

" C. S. Lewis freely called the Christ story a " true myth ", and he believed that even pagan myths express spiritual truths.

Some horror shows use common horror tropes such as vampires with more conventional dramatic forms like the heroic myth ( for example Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) or even gothic romance ( Dark Shadows ).

To exonerate the Soviets, the series casts even less important Allies, like the Poles, in the bad light, even repeating Nazi propaganda claims such as the Tuchola Forest myth or false claims about the Polish Air Force being destroyed on the ground.

This diversity led Thornton to describe the initial " exploration of the Atlantic " as " a truly international exercise, even if many of the dramatic discoveries as those of Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan were made under the sponsorship of the Iberian monarchs ", something that would give rise to the later myth that " the Iberians were the sole leaders of the exploration ".

Through the work of classical writers such as Plutarch, knowledge of the Osiris myth was preserved even after the middle of the first millennium AD, when Egyptian religion ceased to exist and knowledge of the writing systems that were originally used to record the myth were lost.

An examination of the legacy of the myth and its treatment in Western art, literature, and thought — in drama, poetry, prose, philosophic discourse, political tracts, opera, ballet, film, and even the plastic arts.

In a myth alluded to in a fragment of Pherecydes, Zeus turned them to stone for trying to deceive even him ; the stone was shown to visitors to Thermopylae.

There are various forms of matriarchy, or even a utopia that resembles the Greek myth of the Amazons .... ery few modern utopias have been developed in which women are absolute autocrats.

Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the Argolid, though archaeology has borne out the myth that the sacred site was older even than the Mycenaean city of Argos since Lerna was the site of the myth of the Danaids.