Some religious communities regard sin as a crime ; some may even highlight the crime of sin very early in legendary or mythological accounts of origins — note the tale of Adam and Eve and the theory of original sin.

Dobson and Taylor in their survey of the legend, in which they reject the mythological theory, nevertheless regard it as " highly probable " that this French Robin's name and functions travelled to the English May Games where they fused with the Robin Hood legend.

Another theory considers this legend to be the creation of a mythological past needed to back up the fast-rising Frankish rule in Western Europe.

Frye readily acknowledged the debt he owed to Vico in developing his literary theory, describing him as " the first modern thinker to understand that all major verbal structures have descended historically from poetic and mythological ones " ( Words with Power xii ).

Another theory relates Strigoi to the Italian word Strega which means " witch " and the Greek word Strigx, and which likely derives from the Albanian Shtriga ( the ancient Illyrians, Thracians and Dacians shared similar mythological characters and tales ).

Renaissance mythological painting was in theory reviving the iconography of the ancient world, but in practice themes like Leda and the Swan developed on largely original lines, and for different purposes.

His point being not to refute the theory, but to demonstrate how all theories can be true and mythological depending on your perspective.

Since their publication, some of Rydberg's mythological theories have been cited in a number of other scholarly works including his theory regarding a World Mill, the dead, various aspects of the world-tree Yggdrasil, the afterlife and underworld and his identification of Harbard with Loki in the Poetic Edda poem Hárbarðsljóð.

However in the West, history painting came to require an extensive landscape background where appropriate, so the theory did not entirely work against the development of landscape painting – for several centuries landscapes were regularly promoted to the status of history painting by the addition of small figures to make a narrative scene, typically religious or mythological.

" Polk characterized this theory as " imaginative speculation ", adding that another scholar offered the " interestingly plausible " suggestion that Roland's Califerne is a corruption of the Persian Kar-i-farn, a mythological " mountain of Paradise " where griffins lived.

" Polk characterized this theory as " imaginative speculation ", adding that another scholar offered the " interestingly plausible " suggestion that Roland's Califerne is a corruption of the Persian Kar-i-farn, a mythological " mountain of Paradise " where griffins lived.

If in ancient times the Teacher was mythological cultural hero, then in modern theory of knowledge he is one of the cosmic Hierarchs influencing on evolutional processes.

The Christ myth theory ( also known as Jesus mythicism, the Jesus myth theory and the nonexistence hypothesis ) is the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was not a historical person, but is a fictional or mythological character created by the early Christian community.

Other scholars reject the theory that the early Christian traditions related to Jesus can be explained with parallels in pagan mythological.

It was this type of anthropological theory which attracted students and researchers alike ; those interested in a type of anthropology that was holistic, that was broad and deep at the same time, that related economic circumstances with mythological and spatial classifications or cognitive subsurface structures, and that explored the relationship between the botanical world and religious, symbolic systems.

Subsequent interpretations have largely built on this theory even if they disallow that a temple sculpture could represent a contemporary event rather than a mythological or historical one.

For example, in 1857 Brasseur identified Votan as a Phoenician ruler who founded Palenque and in an article published in 1872 attributed mythological Mesoamerican cataclysms to an early version of pole shift theory.

* That the rhyme records a mythological event, such as the death of the god Balder from Norse mythology, or the ritual sacrifice of a king figure, as proposed by early folklorists as in the ' Cutty Wren ' theory of a ' pagan survival '.

This does not mean that mythological language as such can no longer be used in theology and preaching.

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.

" Although Ovid does not name Inuus in his treatment of the Lupercalia, he may allude to his sexual action in explaining the mythological background of the festival.

This class, judged by the evolution of the mythological creations of the Veda, does not represent direct abstractions, but appears in each case to be derived from an epithet applied to one or more deities and illustrating a particular aspect of activity or character.

* Catholic Encyclopedia article It does not cite the mythological theme pictures.

Baroness Olave Baden-Powell ( wife of their founder, Robert Baden-Powell ) named the Brownies after a kind of mythological elf that does helpful things around the house.

But the future confusion between the rhinoceros and the unicorn was already in the making since the Persian language uses the same word, karkadann, for the mythological animal as it does for the rhinoceros, and this confusion is evident also in the illustrations of the creature.

The notion of hieros gamos does not presuppose actual performance in ritual, but is also used in purely symbolic or mythological context, notably in alchemy and hence in Jungian psychology.

While this story may be mythological, it does suggest that Gutian raids were already beginning during this period.

Amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ), amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amphivena, or anphivena ( the last two being feminine ), a Greek word, from amphis, meaning " both ways ", and bainein, meaning " to go ", also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.

Tolkien, who would later go on to write his novels, such as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, with their influence taken from the same mythological scenes portrayed by the Pre-Raphaelites.

* Rainbow Bridge ( pets ), a concept in the pet owner community, referring to a metaphorical or mythological place where pets go upon their deaths, to be later reunited with their owners

The sources of the Khidir-story go back to mythological motifs appearing in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, in the Alexander romance and in Jewish legends centered around the mythical figure of Elijah.

The Epicureans believed that the soul was a thin tissue of atoms that dissipated into the cosmos upon death, and that conventional mythological views of the afterlife and its geography and inhabitants were inane fictions — a view encapsulated by a funeral inscription at Rome that reads: Do not go forth nor pass along without reading me ; but stop, listen to me and do not leave before you have been instructed: there is no crossing ferry to Hades, nor Charon the ferryman, nor Aeacus holding the keys, nor the dog Cerberus.

The origin of the name is explained in one of the mythological Welsh tales known as the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, which were first written down in the early Middle Ages, but which actually go much further back into the history of oral Welsh storytelling.

Sri Lankan dances goes back to the mythological times of aboriginal yingyang twins and " yakkas " ( devils ).

Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, and astrological practices of pre-history: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy, and not completely disentangled from it until a few centuries ago in the Western World ( see astrology and astronomy ).

The Kojiki ( Record of Ancient Matters ) and the Nihon Shoki ( History of Japan ), both of which were compiled in the eighth century A. D., are but two outstanding examples in which iron swords and swordsmanship are dated back to the Japanese mythological age of the gods ( kami ).

Another mythological reference appeared with the term pes hippocampi, which may date back to Diemerbroeck in 1672, introducing a comparison with the shape of the folded back forelimbs and webbed feet of the Classical hippocampus ( Greek: ἱππόκαμπος ), a sea monster with a horse's forequarters and a fish's tail.

The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries.

Although mythological characters are not representations of real people, they are a group that would have been recognizable to ancient audiences, and even back then, tended to fall into well-established group types.

Some clans such as Clan Campbell and Clan Donald claim ancient Celtic mythological progenitors mentioned in the Fenian cycle, with another group including Clan MacSween, Clan Lamont, Clan MacEwen of Otter, Clan Maclachlan, and Clan MacNeil tracing their ancestry back to the 5th century Niall of the Nine Hostages, legendary High King of Ireland, through the O ' Neill dynasty of Cenél nEógain ( Kings of Ailech ).

The oldest gentes claimed to have originated before the foundation of Rome ( traditionally 753 BC ), and claimed descent from mythological personages as far back as the time of the Trojan War ( traditionally ended 1184 BC ).

In this science fiction-inspired feature, he added elements taken from the Greek mythological myth of the Minotaur and himself played the protagonist, as well as constructed a small volcano in his back yard to create a form of home-made special effect.

Sri Lankan dances goes back to the mythological times of aboriginal yingyang twins and " yakkas " ( devils ).

However, traditional mythological symbols had enduring popularity as well, which can be traced back to North Africa's Punic heritage.

The mythological use for a Hyas, apparently a back formation from Hyades, may simply have been to provide a male figure to consort with the archaic rain-nymphs, the Hyades, a chaperone responsible for their behavior, as all the archaic sisterhoods — even the Muses — needed to be controlled under the Olympian world-picture ( Ruck and Staples ).

According to Dimitris Papaioannou, the event " was a pageant of traditional Greek culture and history harkening back to its mythological beginnings, and viewed through the progression of Greek art.

Its traditional and mythological foundation date goes back to 4 BC, but historians believe it was founded around the 3rd to 5th century.

The Iroquois mythological record carries significant ancient elements that point back to distant Asian / Siberian origins ( Wonderley xxvi ), which coincides with well-accepted archaeological evidence.

In Rock, the player takes on the persona of the title character Willford Rockwell, an archeology student, who is faced with the aftermath of a fanatical group called the Olympian Restoration Army ( ORA ), who somehow have managed to bring back to life a host of mythological creatures from Ancient Greece, including Zeus, king of the Gods, who has abducted Will's girlfriend Emma.

On his return, he brought the “ bones ” of the mythological Theseus back to Athens.

Although the history of Mahuri Vaisya is traceable to a very near term to hardly three centuries or so, the family folklores of Mahuri Vaisya people as well as certain mythological and historical evidences suggest that roots of the Mahuri Vaisya ( not necessarily with the same name " mahuri ") may be traced back to two millennia before — even to the Maurya and Gupta periods.

The Tradition of invoking the aid of questionable etymologies in order to support mythological allegories dates back to Plato, and carried on through Aristotle, the Stoics, and into the Middle Ages.

The ride first takes visitors back to a mythological version of Norway's Viking days.

In the mythological epic, the monkey-warrior Hanuman was sent back to India to fetch the four medicinal herbs by Jambavan namely, mritasanjeevani, vishalyakarani, suvarnakarani, and sandhani from the Himalayas in order to heal Lakshman who was wounded trying to save the abducted Princess Sita from the demon king Ravana.