Though details of genealogy differ from one ancient author to another, the cultural significance of the mythic theme, that the descendants of Heracles, exiled after his death, returned after some generations in order to reclaim land that their ancestors had held in Mycenaean Greece, was to assert the primal legitimacy of a traditional ruling clan that traced its origin, thus its legitimacy, to Heracles.

Mendes came across American Beauty in a pile of eight scripts at Swofford's house, and knew immediately that it was the one he wanted to make ; early in his career, he had been inspired by how the film Paris, Texas ( 1984 ) presented contemporary America as a mythic landscape and he saw the same theme in American Beauty, as well as parallels with his own childhood.

They were among the company of heroes that hunted the Calydonian Boar, another mythic theme that was already well-known to Homer's listeners.

The first six books treated the mythic history of the non-Hellenic and Hellenic tribes to the destruction of Troy and are geographical in theme, and describe the history and culture of Ancient Egypt ( book I ), of Mesopotamia, India, Scythia, and Arabia ( II ), of North Africa ( III ), and of Greece and Europe ( IV – VI ).

The fulfillment of the oracle was told several ways, each incorporating the mythic theme of exile.

* The amputation of the legs of Kalevide by a magical sword is similar to the Hurrian mythic theme of the amputation of the feet of Ullikummi by a supernatural knife.

In Homer, brief allusions could be made to mythic themes of generations previous to the main narrative because they were already familiar to the epic's hearers: one example is the theme of the Calydonian boarhunt.

# The hun-tun theme in early Taoism represents an ensemble of mythic elements coming from different cultural and religious situations.

The theme of weaving in mythology is ancient, and its lost mythic lore probably accompanied the early spread of this art.

In addition, Aldrich ( 1953: 153 ) points out that Studies of Type-Images in Poetry, Religion and Philosophy is “ a sequel and supplement ” to Archetypal Patterns in Poetry and that the theme of both books is “ the current widespread idea that we have not wholly awakened out of the ‘ dream ’ of mythic consciousness, whose symbols are still exploited in great poetry and religion and even metaphysics .” Furthermore, “ both books were written under the spell mainly of C. J. Jung, but also of Albert Schweitzer and Plato.

And the common man was developing mythic power, or charisma, on his own.

The ancient history of Asia Minor is very important for the history of the Western civilization because it was the region where the mythic way of thought changed gradually to the rational way of thought.

Aeolus (, Aiolos, Modern Greek: ), a name shared by three mythic characters, was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology.

A bird that had been associated with Hera on an archaic level, where most of the Aegean goddesses were associated with " their " bird, was the cuckoo, which appears in mythic fragments concerning the first wooing of a virginal Hera by Zeus.

More recently she has been the focus in Malinche's Conquest by Ana Lanyon, a non-fiction account of the author's research into the historical and mythic woman who was Malinche.

Megara was one of the four districts of Attica, embodied in the four mythic sons of King Pandion II, of whom Nisos was the ruler of Megara.

( Since according to tradition Carthage was founded in 814 BC, the arrival of Trojan refugees a few hundred years earlier exposes chronological difficulties within the mythic tradition.

As " first to be devoured ... and the last to be yielded up again ", Hestia was thus both the eldest and youngest daughter ; this mythic inversion is found in the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite ( 700 BC ).

When Pausanias visited the city of Triteia in the second century CE, he was told that the name of the city was derived from an eponymous Triteia, a daughter of Triton, and that it claimed to have been founded by her son ( with Ares ), one among several mythic heroes named Melanippus (" Black Horse ").

by David Cook, was published the same year, and featured the first appearance by Vecna, formerly a mythic lich in Dungeons & Dragons lore, now promoted to demigod status.

According to the mythic history in the Samguk Yusa, the Gojoseon ( Old Joseon ) was founded in northern Korea and Manchuria in 2333 BCE.

Rather it was an umbrella term used to refer to several ethnic groups, not all of them Nahuatl speaking, that claimed heritage from the mythic place of origin, Aztlan.

Outside Eurasia, in Yoruba mythology, Oshunmare was another mythic regenerating serpent.

The other legendary Emperor, Huangdi's brother, Yandi was born by his mother's telepathy with a mythic dragon.

The Greeks invented for Cilicia an eponymous Hellene founder in the purely mythic Cilix, but the historic founder of the dynasty that ruled Cilicia Pedias was Mopsus, identifiable in Phoenician sources as Mpš, the founder of Mopsuestia who gave his name to an oracle nearby.

Henry's speech was radical enough to gain notice at the time and has achieved mythic status since, even if his exact words are unknown.

In another mythic context, the Achelous was said to be formed by the tears of Niobe, who fled to Mount Sipylus after the deaths of her husband and children.

Euhemeristic attempts on the part of readers whose own cultural background dismisses the mythic fleece as a fanciful object have interpreted the Golden Fleece " realistically " as reflecting some actual cultural object or alleged historical practice grounded in economics: for example, in the twentieth century it was suggested that the story of the Golden Fleece signified the bringing of sheep husbandry to Greece from the east ; in other readings more schooled in mythology it would refer to golden grain, or to the sun.

In the version sited at Rhodes, a much earlier mythic level is reflected in the genealogy: there, the woman who plunged into the sea and became Leucothea was Halia (" of the sea ", a personification of the saltiness of the sea ) whose parents were from the ancient generation, Thalassa and Pontus or Uranus.

The remaining forty-nine Danaides had their grooms chosen by a common mythic competition: a foot-race was held and the order in which the potential Argive grooms finished decided their brides ( compare the myth of Atalanta ).

The archaic joint temple built upon the spot that was identified as the Kekropion, the hero-grave of the mythic founder-king Cecrops and the serpent that embodied his spirit was destroyed by the Persian forces in 480 BC, during the Greco-Persian wars, and was replaced between 421 and 407 BCE by the famous present Erechtheum.

It is in the agricultural world of ancient Mesopotamia, the Egyptian Nile, and in the earlier planting-culture systems that the Goddess is the dominant mythic form.

The mythic element is an equivocating attempt to resolve the submerged conflict between an ancient ten Labours and a more recent twelve.

However, their exact role in the presumably ancient mythic complex surrounding Loki's family remains largely unclear.

Prof Karl Kerenyi claims an ancient mythic figure Iachen ( or Iachim ) represents a sublimated form of Sirius or Sothis.

However, there is mention in Atharvaveda of demonic Brahmans called Dasagva ( ten-headed ) and Navagva ( nine-headed ) and the metaphor of a supernatural number of bodyparts to symbolize powers is an ancient one in Indian mythic depictions.

The route that the Romans regularised and paved was ancient when they set out to survey it, so old that it traces the mythic route travelled by Heracles.

Gagé though sees an ancient, preclassical Greek mythic substratum to which belong Deucalion and Pyrrha and the Hyperborean origins of the Delphic cult of Apollo as well as the Argonauts.

In the following decades Hermann Gunkel drew attention to the mythic aspects of the Pentateuch, and Albrecht Alt, Martin Noth and the tradition history school argued that although its core traditions had genuinely ancient roots, the narratives were fictional framing devices and were not intended as history in the modern sense.

In Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller, biographer Jackie Wullschlager points out that Andersen was not only a successful adapter of existing lore and literary material such as the Spanish source tale for " The Emperor's New Clothes " but also equally competent at creating new material that entered the human collective consciousness with the same mythic power as ancient, anonymous lore.

Medieval and Renaissance authors often linked this transfer of power by genealogically attaching a ruling family to an ancient Greek or Trojan hero ; this schema was modeled on Virgil's use of Aeneas ( a Trojan hero ) as mythic founder of the city of Rome in his Aeneid.

Oba Oduduwa, the mythic ancient first king of Ife.

Surrounding this, four replicas of Indra's Vajra ( the all-powerful mythic weapon of the ancient Vedic King of Gods ).

Indeed the lion was associated by the Han Chinese to earlier venerated creatures of the ancient Chinese, most notably by the monk Huilin ( 琳说 ) who stated that " the mythic suanni ( 狻猊 ) is actually the lion, coming from the Western Regions " ( 狻猊即狮子也 ， 出西域 ).

According to Professor Richard Nelson Frye, Cyrus – whose abilities as conqueror and administrator Frye says are attested by the longevity and vigor of the Achaemenian empire – held an almost mythic role among the Persian people " similar to that of Romulus and Remus in Rome or Moses for the Israelites ", with a story that " follows in many details the stories of hero and conquerors from elsewhere in the ancient world ".< ref name = Frye >" Cyrus II ".

It is in the agricultural world of ancient Mesopotamia, the Egyptian Nile, and in the earlier planting-culture systems that the Goddess is the dominant mythic form.

Over the course of the books, Renquist clashes with, variously, the Old God Cthulhu, the nosferatu Clan Fenrior, members of his own colony, a Nazi society living in caverns under the ground ( in an environment which is supposed to be the basis of the Hollow Earth ), the mythic magician Merlin, a cult known as The Apogee, and the Dhrakuh, an ancient race of sentient reptiles ( who it is implied are the basis of dragon legends ).

The meeting was recorded as being characterized by a mythic aura common to meetings between great historical figures in ancient China.

Ketu is considered one of the seven original kingdoms established by the children of Oduduwa in Oyo mythic history, though this ancient pedigree has been somewhat neglected in contemporary Yoruba historical research, which tends to focus on communities within Nigeria.

An alternative theory links the name to a mythic ancient king called Bolor Shah, who had first united the region and from whom local rulers in turn often claimed descent.

John Freccero notes, " In the ancient world, descent in search of understanding was known as katabasis ", thus endowing mythic and poetic accounts of katabasis with a symbolic significance.