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.

The myth in Catasterismi may be derived from the fact that a set of constellations appear close together in the sky, in and near the Zodiac sign of Libra, namely Ursa Minor, Ursa Major, Boötes, and Virgo.

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 that “ in 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.

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.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

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

He wrote, " Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

However, other versions of her myth have her born near the island of Kythira ( Cythera ), for which reason she is called " Cytherea ".

More purely Hellenic myth would have Amathus settled instead by one of the sons of Heracles, thus accounting for the fact that he was worshiped there.

In some versions of the myth, no men were permitted to have sexual encounters or reside in Amazon country ; but once a year, in order to prevent their race from dying out, they visited the Gargareans, a neighbouring tribe.

Proponents of both Atlantis as a myth and Atlantis as history have argued that the word refers to Crantor.

Writing in 1933, Charles Fenner suggested that it was likely that the " actual origin of the bunyip myth lies in the fact that from time to time seals have made their way up the ... Murray and Darling ( Rivers )".

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.

A common and unfounded myth is that since Wrigley Field did not have lights at that time the National League decided to give the home field advantage to the winner of the NL West.

The myth that his " father was thought to have been a Church of Scotland minister " is also discounted.

Later national myth made Kenneth MacAlpin the creator of the kingdom of Scotland, the founding of which was dated from 843, the year in which he was said to have destroyed the Picts and inaugurated a new era.

Creation myths develop in oral traditions and therefore typically have multiple versions ; and they are the most common form of myth, found throughout human culture.

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.

Lewis, have described elements of Christianity, particularly the story of Christ, as " myth " which is also " true ".

Some commentators have categorized a number of modern fantasy works as " Christian myth " or " Christian mythopoeia ".

A number of scholars have argued that the ancient Israelites incorporated the combat myth into their religious imagery, such as the figures of Leviathan and Rahab, the Song of the Sea, Isaiah 51: 9-10's description of God's deliverance of his people from Babylon, and the portrayals of enemies such as Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar.

Scholars have also suggested that the Book of Revelation uses combat myth imagery in its descriptions of cosmic conflict.

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.

Since Arthur Drews published his The Christ Myth ( Die Christusmythe ) in 1909, occasional connections have been drawn between the modern idea that Christ was a myth and docetist theories.

In the Slavic myth, the Earth refuses it as it is so vile that Mother Earth wishes not to have it within her womb, and it remains above ground for all eternity.