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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.
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.
The Bible may or may not be factually accurate but is designed to teach spiritual lessons through allegory and myth.
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 ".
The idea of Satan as God's opponent may have developed under the influence of the combat myth.
The deer may also offer a covert reference to the myth of Acteon ( or Actaeon ), who saw her bathing naked.
As Hills concludes: " The flag myth ... may perhaps be allowed now to disappear from Anglo-Spanish polemics.
Contarini thus openly concludes that the Doge is a combination of myth and reality, saying thatin everything you may see the show of a king, but his authority is nothing ”.
The legend may combine Christian lore with a Celtic myth of a cauldron endowed with special powers.
The original myth may have been about a lesser god Helel trying to dethrone the Canaanite high god El who lived on a mountain to the north.
Because the folkloristic meaning of " myth " is often confused with this more pejorative usage, the original unambiguous term " mythos " may be a better word to distinguish the positive definition from the negative.
Mircea Eliade argued that one of the foremost functions of myth is to establish models for behavior and that myths may also provide a religious experience.
The Greek nymphs were spirits invariably bound to places, not unlike the Latin genius loci, and the difficulty of transferring their cult may be seen in the complicated myth that brought Arethusa to Sicily.
The locations of this mythical place may simply be conventions to show that a magically distant chthonic land of myth was intended in the remote past.
The locations of this mythical place may simply be conventions to show that a magically distant chthonic land of myth was intended in the remote past.
Disconnected from its religious system, a myth may lose its immediate relevance to the community and evolve — away from sacred importance — into a legend or folktale.
Thus, the derogatory meaning of the word " myth " is the traditional Christian meaning, and the expression " Christian mythology ", as used in academic discourse, may offend Christians for this reason.
The seed of the myth of Stuart Jacobite influence on the higher degrees may have been a careless and unsubstantiated remark made by John Noorthouk in the 1784 Book of Constitutions of the Premier Grand Lodge of London.
The myth may have explained a memory of an earlier, perhaps pre-Indo-European name for the river, " white " ( alba ) with sediment.
It is also written Donann and Domnann, which may link them with the Fir Domnann (" men of the Domnainn "), a people associated with the Fir Bolg in myth, who are historically attested in Connacht and may be related to the British Dumnonii.
" In a 2010 interview, Meyer said that this was a myth, and that the sentiment stemmed from a friend's letter to Meyer ; he suggested the story had origins in editing notes received from the White House during the production, which " may have been a joke, but it wouldn't surprise me, him being an old Hollywood guy ".
An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend, is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.

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The ancient types are reassembled in gloom and foreboding to be irresistibly drawn to their destinies, but the myth fails before the modern truth ; ;
We shall not be able entirely to pass over these connections to the East as we consider Ripe Geometric pottery, the epic and the myth, and the religious evolution of early Greece ; ;
Eichmann himself is a model of how the myth of the enemy-Jew can be used to transform the ordinary man of present-day society into a menace to all his neighbors.
According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).
Alan Cameron, however, argues that it should be interpreted as referring to Plato, and that when Proclus writes that " we must bear in mind concerning this whole feat of the Athenians, that it is neither a mere myth nor unadorned history, although some take it as history and others as myth ", he is treating " Crantor's view as mere personal opinion, nothing more ; in fact he first quotes and then dismisses it as representing one of the two unacceptable extremes ".
In the 16th-century invention of a suitably antique origin myth for the Dutch people that would be expressive of their self-identification as separate from their neighbors in the national struggle with Spain of the Eighty Years War for Dutch independence, the Batavians came to be regarded as their eponymous ancestors.
Many academic historians hold the idea that the German armed forces adopted " blitzkrieg " as an offensive doctrine to be a myth.
These waves, until 1995, were considered to be a mystery and / or a myth.
According to the myth, cattle are slow-moving, slow-witted and weak-legged, and can easily be pushed over without much force, both because they have a high center of gravity, and because they sleep standing.
" In other words, myth tells how, through the deeds of Supernatural Beings, a reality came into existence, be it the whole of reality, the Cosmos, or only a fragment of reality – an island, a species of plant, a particular kind of human behavior, an institution.
However, other Christian authors assert that Christian narratives should not be categorized as " myth ".
Traditional myth provided the subject matter but the dramatist was meant to be innovative so as to sustain interest, which led to novel characterization of heroic figures and to use of the mythical past to talk about present issues.
Study aids, in particular with potted biographies, might be seen to help propagate the Orwell myth so that as an embodiment of human values he is presented as a " trustworthy guide ", while examination questions sometimes suggest a " right ways of answering " in line with the myth.
The Jewish calendar's reference point is traditionally held to be about one year before the Genesis creation myth | Creation of the world.
If he succeeded, he would be purified of his sin and, as myth says, he would be granted immortality.
According to a myth thought to be of ancient origins, Iolaus was Heracles ' charioteer and squire.
There was some objection to the term, as many writers preferred terms such as " poetic painting " ( poesia ), or wanted to make a distinction between the " true " istoria, covering history including biblical and religious scenes, and the fabula, covering pagan myth, allegory, and scenes from fiction, which could not be regarded as true.

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Scandinavian cartographers from the early 15th century attempted to localise or identify Ginnungagap as a real geographic location from which the creation myth derived.
The first, championed by Roger Sherman Loomis, Alfred Nutt, and Jessie Weston, holds that it derived from early Celtic myth and folklore.
It also expresses the essential character of each of the four deities at its center, and many elements of their worship in ancient Egyptian religion were derived from the myth.
The Hurrian mythThe Songs of Ullikummi ”, preserved among the Hittites, is a parallel to Hesiod's Theogony ; the castration of Uranus by Cronus may be derived from the castration of Anu by Kumarbi, while Zeus's overthrow of Cronus and Cronus's regurgitation of the swallowed gods is like the Hurrian myth of Teshub and Kumarbi.
The name ' Pythia ' derived from Pytho, which in myth was the original name of Delphi.
As a name it is derived from the Greek name of a huntress in the myth of Callisto, who was loved by Zeus.
Gods who ride such animals, notably Shiva and Dionysos, or who have canine servants, notably Orion and Osiris ( with Anubis his gatekeeper and embalmer ), were also regarded by Kerenyi as partly derived from Iachen, the sublimator, or an even older myth.
Wells believed that the Jesus of these earliest Christians is not based on a historical character, but a pure myth, derived from the mystical speculations based on the Jewish Wisdom tradition.
The name, which by an ingenious afterthought is explained as “ the fore thinker ,” is originally the sanskrit pramantha and means “ twirler ” or “ fire-stick ,” being the rod of hard wood which produced fire by rapid rotation in a piece of soft wood .< p > We cannot deny that the myth must have been known also in Mesopotamia, the main center of civilization between India and Greece, and it becomes probable that the figure Sui-Jen has been derived from the same prototype as the Greek Prometheus.
The magazine was named Barazoku ( The Rose Tribe ) by Ito since the flower rose had been a prominent symbol of male homosexuality in Japan, derived from Greek myth of the King Laius who have affairs with boys under rose trees.
Also located within the boundaries of South Ulfland is Ys, a powerful city state ruled by an oligarchy of " syndics " and " factors " ( Ys in fact is derived from a separate myth, a Breton one ).
Although Thailand is considered a Theravada Buddhist society, the Hindu mythology latent in the Ramakian serves to provide Thai legends with a creation myth, as well as representations of various spirits which complement beliefs derived from Thai animism.
Both Persians and the local Kurdish inhabitants practiced Zoroastrianism during the Persian Empire's Sasanian era from which this myth is derived.
As in Scandinavia, when belief in the old gods disappeared, remnants of the mythos persisted: Holda, a " supernatural " patron of spinning ; the Lorelei, a dangerous Rhine siren derived from the Nibelung myth ; the spirit Berchta ( also known as Perchta ); the Weisse Frauen, a water spirit said to protect children ; the Wild Hunt ( in German folklore preceded by an old man, Honest Eckart, who warns others of its approach ); the giant Rübezahl ; changeling legends ; and many more generic entities such as the elf, dwarf, kobold and erlking.
This myth was derived from two misconceptions: First, that tornadoes always travel in a northeasterly direction, and second, that debris from a structure will be carried away in the direction of the tornado's propagation, leaving anyone taking shelter on the side of the structure facing the tornado's approach unharmed.
The naturalist tendency to see life without illusions and to dwell on its more depressing and sordid aspects appears in an intensified degree in the immensely influential poetry of Charles Baudelaire, but with profoundly romantic elements derived from the Byronic myth of the anti-hero and the romantic poet
According to popular myth, the name of the village is actually derived from a Moorish Princess who converted to Christianity under the name of Oureana.
The name is derived from the Meskwaki creation myth, in which their culture hero, Wisaka, created the first humans out of red clay.
At one point “ he set out to try to discredit the popular myth of the war hero committing petty crimes from which he derived no benefit: he forged a check for a small amount and contributed the money to a fund for the children of Hiroshima.
At one point “ he set out to try to discredit the popular myth of the war hero committing petty crimes from which he derived no benefit: he forged a check for a small amount and contributed the money to a fund for the children of Hiroshima.
The naturalist tendency to see life without illusions and to dwell on its more depressing and sordid aspects appears in an intensified degree in the immensely influential poetry of Charles Baudelaire, but with profoundly romantic elements derived from the Byronic myth of the anti-hero and the romantic poet, and the world-weariness of the " mal du siècle ", etc.
Another theory says that the name is derived via Synteng ( the tribe of the rulers ) from Sutnuga, a former settlement ; the myth of Jayanti Devi was probably created after the Hinduisation of the Jaintia kingdom.
A popular myth amongst the Arakanese and the Burmese people is that the name Mrauk U was derived from a legend of a monkey offering Gautama Buddha an egg as a sign of devotion.

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