In the song " Power and Glory " from Lou Reed's 1992 album Magic and Loss, Reed recalls the experience of seeing his friend dying of cancer and makes reference to the myth, " I saw isotopes introduced into his lungs / trying to stop the cancerous spread / And it made me think of Leda and The Swan / and gold being made from lead "

In the foundation myth expressed in the medieval Turkish story known as " Osman's Dream ", the young Osman was inspired to conquest by a prescient vision of empire ( according to his dream, the empire is a big tree whose roots spread through three continents and whose branches cover the sky ).

Finally the Finno-Ugaritic strand of this diffusion spread through Russia to Finland where the Norse myth of Yggdrasil took root.

Although its present spread is confined to the Gulf Coast areas, various data suggest that this myth was once a part of Mayan oral tradition as well.

Though later Greeks like Herodotus dated Cadmus's role in the founding myth of Thebes to well before the Trojan War ( or, in modern terms, during the Aegean Bronze Age ), this chronology conflicts with most of what is now known or thought to be known about the origins and spread of both the Phoenician and Greek alphabets.

In an interview with a Nigerian media house Sheikh Adelabu, the founder and spiritual leader of Awqaf Africa Society in London, dismissed the common myth that all Yorubas are descendants of Oduduwa as a false representation by Orisha worshippers to gain an unjust advantage over the spread of Islam and the recruitment of Christianity ".

Some reasons for the popularity and wide spread of this myth may be the following:

In 1999, five years after the myth started to spread, the city council released a press statement titled Bielefeld gibt es doch!

Alexander the Great encouraged the myth makers in his retinue to spread the legend of his " secret " Olympian paternity.

The Italian politicians failed to perceive the positive elements of the peace treaties and stressed the negative ones, and so the myth of the " mutilated victory " spread, fueling the Fascist propaganda and helping Benito Mussolini seize power.

Cultural forms are said to involve a cultural belief or myth which plays a role in the genesis and spread of the disease in the community, and are regarded as complete forms, fulfilling all the criteria of the symptom complex.

Despite the wide spread myth of hormonal involvement, repeated studies have not linked hormonal changes with postpartum psychological symptoms.

Hand's eloquence as a writer played a larger part in the spread of his influence than the substance of his decisions ; and Schick believes that the Hand myth brushes over contradictions in his legal philosophy.

Also in some Japanese villages, parents spread the myth that he eats little boys to stop them going into the forests at night.

A popular myth ( spread in part by Groucho himself ) surrounding the movie is that the Marx Brothers were threatened with a lawsuit by Warner Bros. for the use of the word " Casablanca " in the title, it being an infringement on the company's rights to the 1942 film Casablanca.

Also, she refuses to eat or drink anything when she is at Starletta's, remembering the myth that if you use the same glass or cup as " coloreds ", the germs they have left on it will spread onto your lips and you will turn as dark as them.

In a 2003 interview with The Guardian, Morle described this as an urban myth spread by companies marketing anti-spyware.

According to a Pygmy myth, Chameleon hearing a strange noise in a tree cut open its trunk and water came out in a great flood that spread all over the land.

Imaginatively colorized versions have helped to spread the myth that the 3-D movies of the 1950s were projected by the anaglyph color filter method.

A joint snake is a mythical creature of the Southern United States, the myth likely having spread elsewhere.

In another version of this myth Ninhursag takes Enki's semen from Uttu's womb and plants it in the earth where eight plants rapidly germinate.

The myth attached itself to the family of Clovis, around which epic tradition rapidly gathered.

* philosophical and theological elaboration of the primal myth of creation within a religious community.

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.

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.

" t appears that the Lebanon is an alternative placement in Phoenician myth ( as in Ez 28, 13, III. 48 ) of the Garden of Eden ", and there are connections between paradise, the garden of Eden and the forests of Lebanon ( possibly used symbolically ) within prophetic writings.

The crucial idea is that myth is not simply a collection of stories permanently fixed to a particular time and place in history, but an ongoing social practice within every society.

The two most prominent aspects of the Prometheus myth have parallels within the beliefs of many cultures throughout the world ; see creation of man from clay and theft of fire.

In the Greek literalistic understanding of a Minoan myth, in order to actually copulate with the bull, she had the Athenian artificer Daedalus construct a portable wooden cow with a cowhide covering, within which she was able to satisfy her strong desire.

Especially within Christianity, objection to the word " myth " rests on a historical basis.

He began to seriously explore myth and esoteric practices within as shamanism, Buddhism and alchemy, perceiving that imagination could heal dualistic splits in the human psyche and poetry was the language of the work.

As in the case of myth, these narratives are believed because they construct and reinforce the worldview of the group within which they are told, or “ because they provide us with coherent and convincing explanations of complex events ”.

In commentary on the impact of the Xenu text, academic scholars have discussed and analyzed the writings by Hubbard and their place within Scientology within the contexts of science fiction, UFO religions, gnosticism and creation myth.

Here, two of the separate forms of Horus that exist in Egyptian tradition have been given distinct positions within Plutarch's version of the myth.

For instance, since both Horus and Set were worshipped in Upper Egypt prior to unification, perhaps the myth reflects a struggle within Upper Egypt prior to unification, in which a Horus-worshipping group subjugated a Set-worshipping group.

According to a 1989 interview with Eckert the continuously failing tubes story was therefore mostly a myth: " We had a tube fail about every two days and we could locate the problem within 15 minutes.

On one level Act Without Words I “ seems a behaviourist experiment within a classical myth ”, that of Tantalus, who stood in a pool of water which receded every time he bent to drink it, and stood under a fruit tree which raised its branches every time he reached for food.

Further investigation of the material by the Australian Heritage Commission led to the Crater Lakes myth being listed nationally on the Register of the National Estate, and included within Australia's World Heritage nomination of the wet tropical forests, as an " unparalleled human record of events dating back to the Pleistocene era.

However this myth was started by the factions within the Labor Caucus, most notably from the Industrialist movements of men such as Frank Anstey.

There has been speculation that the Mayans of Central America may have described the nebula within their " Three Hearthstones " creation myth ; if so, the three would correspond to two stars at the base of Orion, Rigel and Saiph, and another, Alnitak at the tip of the " belt " of the imagined hunter, the vertices of a nearly perfect triangle with Orion's Sword ( including the Orion Nebula ) in the middle seen as the smudge of smoke from copal incense in a modern myth, or, in ( the translation it suggests of ) an ancient one, the literal or figurative embers of a fiery creation.

Truly open development classes are also almost unknown, the famous line about the 18 ft skiff " the boat shall be 18ft long and the race starts at 2 o ' clock " is a myth but open classes will usually allow pretty radical changes within usually some kind of box rule which specifies depth, length, width of hull height of mast and sometimes a minimum weight and sail area.

The incident marked the end of the myth that Mao was always considered absolutely correct within the Party.

There is a well-known myth about the word " quiz ", which says that in 1791 a Dublin theater owner named James Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within twenty-four hours.

Secondly, within the context of Classical Greek myth ( in which Vulcan constructs ) casts an invisible network in order to ensnare Venus, his wife in flagrante delicto with her lover Mars.

One such myth is that if a woman could hop barefoot around the base of the Metal Man three times she would be married within the year.