`` Oh, it's that myth, about Orpheus and What is her name??

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.

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.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

Eichmann himself is a model of how the myth of the enemy-Jew can be used to transform the ordinary man of present-day society into a menace to all his neighbors.

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.

The statement is often made that when Bultmann argues in this way, he `` overestimates the intellectual stumbling-block which myth is supposed to put in the way of accepting the Christian faith ''.

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.

Hence, if what is in question is whether in a given theology myth is or is not completely rejected, it is unimportant whether only a little bit of myth or a considerable quantity is accepted ; ;

We must also remember those who reacted against the dream as a kind of myth -- among them Melville, Hawthorne, and Henry James the elder, all of them out of a Christian background.

Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

Frazer, a Scottish scholar with a broad knowledge of Classics, also concerned himself with religion, myth, and magic.

Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera, Persée, also dramatizes the myth.

In order to attain the Andromeda Cloth, he was chained between two large pillars of rock and he had to overcome the chains before the tide came in and killed him, also reminiscent of this myth.

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.

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.

It is also said in myth that floating rocks known as the Symplegades or Clashing Rocks once crushed any ship that attempted passage of the Bosphorus until the hero Jason obtained passage, whereupon the rocks became fixed, and Greek access to the Black Sea was opened.

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.

In his book the Blitzkrieg Legend, German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser also shares Adam Tooze ' ( in his work The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy ), Overy's and Naveh's concerns over the myth of the blitzkrieg economic and strategy.

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

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

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

The New American Bible also says that Psalm 93 alludes to " an ancient myth " in which God battles a personified Sea.

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

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

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.

The deer may also offer a covert reference to the myth of Acteon ( or Actaeon ), who saw her bathing naked.

This is also the title given in the Bible to Eve, the Hebrew Khavvah ( חוה ), the Aramaic Hawwah, who was made from the rib of Adam, in a strange reflection of the Sumerian myth, in which Adam — not Enki — walks in the Garden of Paradise.

This seems also implicated in the epic of the hieros gamos or sacred marriage of Enki and Ninhursag ( above ), which seems an etiological myth of the fertilisation of the dry ground by the coming of irrigation water ( from Sumerian a, ab, water or semen ).

Psychologist Peter Schönemann was also a persistent critic of IQ, calling it " the IQ myth ".

There is also a myth that she had once killed four tigers with six bullets.

The Babylonian myth of Etana has also been seen as connected.

The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus recorded an alternative version of this myth in his Gesta Danorum.

The origins of the Olympics and Marathon running are shrouded by myth and legend, though the first recorded game took place in 776 BCE.

In a late Greek myth, recorded in Eustathius ' commentary on Homer and John Tzetzes, Heracles encountered Scylla during a journey to Sicily and slew her.

The creation myth of Shinto is recorded in the ca.

The genesis myth and early recorded history of the Sinhalese is chronicled in two documents, the Mahavamsa, written in Pāli around the 4th century CE, and the much later Chulavamsa ( probably penned in the 13 century CE by the Buddhist monk Dhammakitti ).

Episodes from the myth were also recorded in writings intended as entertainment.

Ancient Greek and Roman writers, who described Egyptian religion late in its history, recorded much of the Osiris myth.

A popular urban myth at Oxford University states that Wilson's grade in his final examination was the highest ever recorded up to that date.

Its blurred ( an essentially Protestant ) sense of a non-historical narrative or myth was first recorded in 1613.

As in the soteriological Greek myth ( recorded by Appollodorus, et al.

In his Fabularum Liber ( or Fabulae ), Gaius Julius Hyginus recorded the myth that Italus was a son of Penelope and Telegonus.

According to the myth recorded by Juan de Betanzos, Viracocha rose from Lake Titicaca ( or sometimes the cave of Pacaritambo ) during the time of darkness to bring forth light.

* the Port Phillip myth ( recorded as told to Robert Russell in 1850 ), describing Port Phillip Bay as once dry land, and the course of the Yarra River being once different, following what was then Carrum Carrum swamp.

In 1988 Australian anthropologist Kenneth Maddock assembled several versions of this ' Captain Cook ' myth as recorded from a number of Aboriginal groups around Australia.

Soifer speaks of " the enigma " of Vishnu's Narasimha avatara and comments that " how the myth arrived at its rudimentary form recorded in the Mahabharata, and where the figure of the man-lion came from remain unsolved mysteries.

It is part of the traditional lands of the Gurabana Gungandji people, who recorded its formation in myth, and was used as a hunting and fishing ground.

Tamuramaro is reputedly buried at Shōgun-zuka, and his spirit is said to be guarding Kyoto still ; but even if part of that tale is only myth, the recorded final resting place of the old warrior was near the village of Kurusu ( Kurusu-mura 栗栖村 ) in Yamashiro's Uji district.

In the myth recorded on cuneiform tablets, the deity Enki ( later Ea ) believed correctly that Apsu, upset with the chaos they created, was planning to murder the younger deities ; and so captured him, holding him prisoner beneath is temple the E-Abzu.

The Tiamat myth is one of the earliest recorded versions of the Chaoskampf, the battle between a culture hero and a chthonic or aquatic monster, serpent or dragon.

Biffy Clyro recorded their second album, The Vertigo Of Bliss, there-and, according to an urban myth, took just 24 hours to do so.

As Williams had expected Stephens's essay to reinforce the myth, he was not willing to award the prize to Stephens and, it is recorded, " matters became turbulent ".

St Albans also had a legend, recorded in John Norden's Speculum Britanniae ( 1596 ) that a ruined marble tomb of Mandeville ( represented cross-legged and in armour, with sword and shield ) once stood in the abbey ; this may be true of " Mangevilayn " or it may be a mere myth.

However the city archives do not hold any letter relating to the motto, and Grey ( 2005 ) argues that the Elizabethan origin of the motto may be no more than a local myth, since it is not recorded in contemporary chronicles, and that it may have been adopted at the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy to compensate for the city's less than total loyalty to the crown during the English Civil War.

Herodotus recorded the Pontic Greek myth that the Agathyrsi were named after a legendary ancestor Agathyrsus, an oldest son of Hercules and the monster Echidna.