* English musician Thomas Dolby, who has released an album called The Flat Earth used the name Flat Earth Society for his website forums, and has linked to information in regards to the flat earth myth in the past.

Some commentators have claimed that Flammarion produced the image to propagandize the myth that medieval Europeans widely believed the Earth to be flat.

The M1 is straight and flat on the stretch between Junctions 9 and 10 and on the stretch between Junctions 12 and 13, and an urban myth exists claiming that these were to be used as supplementary runways by the United States Air Force in the event of a major conflict with the Soviet Union.

In Classical Greek and Roman myth, various goddesses represented the Earth, seasons, crops and fertility, including Demeter and Persephone ; Ceres ; the Horae ( goddesses of the seasons ), and Proserpina ; and Hades ( Pluto ) who ruled the souls of dead in the Underworld.

* Creation myth, stories of the supernatural creation of the Earth

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.

The Hollow Earth milieu of Skartaris in the Warlord series of comic books by Mike Grell, published from 1976 – 1989, is essentially a translation of Pellucidar into the graphic medium, with the admixture of magic and elements of the Atlantis myth.

In related stories, the creation idea is caused by a single entity emanating or producing something by him-or herself, as in the Tibetan Buddhism concept of Adi-Buddha, the ancient Greek story of Gaia ( Mother Earth ), the Aztec goddess Coatlicue myth, the ancient Egyptian god Atum story, or the Genesis creation narrative.

In the typical form of her myth, Isis was the first daughter of Geb, god of the Earth, and Nut, goddess of the Sky, and she was born on the fourth intercalary day.

Atlas was punished by Zeus and made to bear the weight of the heavens ( the idea of Atlas carrying the Earth is not correct according to the original myth ) on his back.

We also have fragments of the writings of the early philosopher Pherecydes of Syros ( 6th century ) who devised a myth or legend in which powers known as Zas and Chronos ' Time ' and Chthonie ' Of the Earth ' existed from the beginning and in which Chronos creates the universe.

He is often shown with his right foot replaced with an obsidian mirror or a bone — an allusion to the creation myth in which he loses his foot battling with the Earth Monster.

In one version of the Aztec creation account the myth of the Five Suns, the first creation, " The Sun of the Earth " was ruled by Tezcatlipoca but destroyed by Quetzalcoatl when he struck down Tezcatlipoca who then transformed into a jaguar.

In many variants of the creation myth, Atahensic ( also known as Ataensic ) was a Sky Woman who fell to the Earth.

Nut appears in the creation myth of Heliopolis which involves several goddesses who play important roles: Tefnut ( Tefenet ) is a personification of moisture, who mated with Shu ( Air ) and then gave birth to Sky as the goddess Nut, who mated with her brother Earth, as Geb.

In more recent times writers such as Dion Fortune, John Michell, Nicholas Mann and Geoffrey Ashe have formed theories based on perceived connections between Glastonbury and Celtic legends of the otherworld and Annwn in attempts to link the location firmly with Avalon, drawing on the various legends based on Glastonbury Tor as well as drawing on ideas like Earth mysteries, Ley lines and even the myth of Atlantis.

However, Jeffrey Burton Russell in his review of the formation of the Flat Earth myth, which was invented in the past 2 centuries, argues that there were sufficient lines of evidence and widespread acceptance among academics from the times of the early church from notable figures like Augustine of the spherical earth.

George Albert Wells, who now argues a more moderate form of the Christ myth and who rejects Doherty's view that the mythical Jesus of Paul did not also descend to Earth, has nonetheless described The Jesus Puzzle as an " important book ".

He begins this work by outlining how the creation myth was not an account of the creation of Earth, but an account of man's rebirth or regeneration in six steps represented by the six days of creation.

* The memory of Earth and its location may be lost to the sands of time or shrouded in myth.

He also expressed his feeling that our deeds on Earth constitute " a myth which we act almost without knowing it.

This myth was taken up in later Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature and projected into the future, so that cosmic battle becomes the decisive act at the end of the world's history: thus the Book of Revelation ( end of the 1st century CE ) tells how, after the God's final victory over the sea-monsters, New Heavens and New Earth shall be inaugurated in a cosmos in which there will be " no more sea " ( Revelation 21: 1 ).

According to Hubbard, and Scientology's creation myth, much of the galaxy was ruled tens of millions of years ago by the Galactic Confederacy, comprising 26 stars and 76 planets, including Earth, then known as Teegeeack.

Phaethon's name and character as well as his father Helion are direct references to the Greek myth of Phaëton who stole his father's ( the sun god Helios ) chariot and rode it too close to the Earth.

Earthsearch eventually reveals itself as an inverted creation myth, providing a possible " factual " story which could lie behind various Earth legends.

The Cherokee creation myth describes the earth as a great floating island surrounded by seawater.

The batembuzi and their reign are not well documented, and are surrounded by a lot of myth and oral legend.

The blue catfish is the largest species of catfish in the United States, and is surrounded by mystery, legend, and myth.

The beaded lizard is surrounded by myth and superstition in much of its native range.

Whatever the psychological truth in the Oedipus myth, an Oedipus who is drawn to his fate by irresistible external forces can carry the symbol of humanity and its archaic crime, and the incest that is unknowing renews the mystery of the eternal dream of childhood and absorbs us in the secret.

In both the farmer's tale in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and in Thomas Mann's The Holy Sinner, the incest hero rises above the myth by accepting the wish as motive ; ;

An unusual, if not extraordinary, rendering of the classic myth that involves the rescue of Prometheus from the rock by the U.S. Cavalry was given last week in the warehouse of the Albany Leather Conduit Company amid cheers of `` Hubba hubba '' and `` Yalagaloo pip pip ''!!

According to the myth, Old Order then vanishes at stage left and reappears at extreme stage right, but Director Shuz skillfully sidesteps the rather gooshey problem of stage effects by simply having Miss Arapacis walk across the stage.

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.

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.

* In the myth of Psyche and Eros, Psyche is given ambrosia by Hermes upon her completion of the quests set by Aphrodite and her acceptance on Olympus.

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 the film, the monster is called a Kraken, although it is depicted as a lizard-like creature rather than a squid ; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medusa's face, turning the monster into stone.

One of the roles of Ares that was sited in mainland Greece itself was in the founding myth of Thebes: Ares was the progenitor of the water-dragon slain by Cadmus, for the dragon's teeth were sown into the ground as if a crop and sprung up as the fully armored autochthonic Spartoi.

The line between myth and tall tale is distinguished primarily by age ; many myths exaggerate the exploits of their heroes, but in tall tales the exaggeration looms large, to the extent of becoming the whole of the story.

There also is the origin myth that represents the ægis as a fire-breathing chthonic monster similar to the Chimera, which was slain and flayed by Athena, who afterward wore its skin as a cuirass ( Diodorus Siculus iii.

The myth was perpetuated by Romeyn de Hooghe's Spiegel van Staat der Vereenigden Nederlanden (" Mirror of the State of the United Netherlands ", 1706 ), which also ran to many editions, and it was revived in the atmosphere of Romantic nationalism in the late eighteenth-century reforms that saw a short-lived Batavian Republic and, in the colony of the Dutch East Indies, a capital ( now Jakarta ) that was named Batavia.

Modern variants of the Batavian founding myth are made more credible by pointing out that the Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, together with the Frisians, Franks and Saxons, and by tracing patterns of DNA.

While inspired by traditional Beltane, this festival is a modern arts and cultural event ( compared by organizers to the American Burning Man festival ) which incorporates myth and drama from a variety of world cultures and diverse literary sources.

Catullus, as was common to his era, was greatly influenced by stories from Greek and Roman myth.

According to myth, the Comoros islands were first visited by Phoenician sailors.

* The Register article debunking the myth of cow tipping while drunk by Lester Haines

In some versions of the myth, this is symbolized by the god spitting into her mouth ; in other Greek versions, this act was sufficient to remove the gift so recently given by Apollo, but Cassandra's case varies.

The Cimbrian origin is a myth that was popularized by the humanists in the 14th century.

Howard also wrote " The Frost-Giant's Daughter ", inspired by the Greek myth of Daphne, and submitted both stories to Weird Tales magazine.