Even far outside its range, the reindeer is well known due to the myth, probably originating in early 19th century America, in which Santa Claus's sleigh is pulled by flying reindeer, a popular element of Christmas.

The myth of a Storm God fighting a Sea Serpent is itself a popular mythic trope potentially originating with the Proto-Indo-European religion and later transmitted into the religions of the Ancient Near East most likely initially through interaction with Hittite speaking peoples into Syria and the Fertile Crescent.

There is textual and archaeological evidence that districts such as Trigg were used as martially points for ' war hosts ' from across the region, likely to have also included troops from overseas evidenced by corresponding place names in Brittany — a recurring motif of Brythonic Arthurian myth originating in this period, such as Tristan and Iseult.

Karl Kerenyi, in quoting this passage, remarks, " At the core of this richly elaborated myth, in which the poet even recalls the rhyta, it is not easy to separate the Cretan elements from those originating in Asia Minor.

Philosopher George Walsh argues that Christianity can be seen as originating in a myth dressed up as history, or with a historical being mythologized into a supernatural one: he calls the former the Christ myth theory, and the latter the historical Jesus theory.

They earned this title because of their shared interest in ritual, more specifically their attempts to explain myth and early forms of classical drama as originating in ritual, mainly the ritual seasonal killings of eniautos daimon, or the Year-King.

No further details of Uzziel's life are given by the Bible, and according to bible critics, the genealogy for Levi's descendants is actually an aetiological myth, reflecting popular perception of the connections between different Levite factions ; textual " scholars " attribute the genealogy to the Book of Generations, a document originating from a similar religiopolitical group and date to the priestly source.

Many academic historians hold the idea that the German armed forces adopted " blitzkrieg " as an offensive doctrine to be a myth.

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.

Sociological historian Holger Herwig found in studying German explanations for the origins of World War I, " Those events that are most important are hardest to understand, because they attract the greatest attention from myth makers and charlatans.

A popular myth is that Polish cavalry armed with lances charged German tanks during the September 1939 campaign.

To support the intended process of nation building even further, a vague myth of some common Germanic original language developed, and German dialectology began to name dialect groups after presumed and real groups of historic tribes having existed from BC to about 600 AD, from which they were assumed to have descended.

The stab-in-the-back myth ( German: )< ref > Despite the similarity of the German word Legende and the English word " legend ", " stab-in-the-back < u > myth </ u >" is the preferred term in English .</ ref > is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy.

Throughout the 19th century, these anti-Napoleonic Freikorps were greatly praised and glorified by German nationalists, and a heroic myth built up around their exploits.

Besides a direct quote there exist many variations starting " Ich bin ein (+ noun, e. g., Frankfurter )" that is supposed to be understood by the primarily English-speaking audience based on the widespread knowledge of this German phrase and its myth.

" In the bonus material on the DVD, screenwriter Nicholas Meyer and actor William Shatner both explain that this was an allusion to the German myth that Shakespeare was in fact German.

This myth proved to be a weapon against the Weimar Republic, and exercised a destructive influence on the political culture of the first German democracy.

Operation Barbarossa was named after Frederick Barbarossa, the medieval German ruler who, as myth had it, would rescue Germany in her time of need.

Italian unity under German rule was more myth than truth.

After being recruited by the German government to fill the labor shortages in specific industries, Turkish migrants relocated to German cities such as Berlin and Frankfurt under the ‘ myth of return ’.

Like many other German nationalists, Hitler believed in the stab-in-the-back myth, which claimed that the army, " undefeated in the field ," had been " stabbed in the back " by civilian leaders and Marxists back on the home front, later dubbed the November Criminals.

Although such a charge did not happen and there were no tanks used during the combat, the myth was used by German propaganda during the war.

The following is a quote from one of his speeches: Since the great days of the magnificent German victories of the years 1870-71, we have become increasingly conscious of our German identity and now thumb more ardently through the books of German myth, legends and history.

Other political organizations of the same ilk, such as the former Norwegian fascist party Nasjonal Samling, similarly appropriated elements of the modern Viking cultural myth in their symbolism and propaganda.

To exonerate the Soviets, the series casts even less important Allies, like the Poles, in the bad light, even repeating Nazi propaganda claims such as the Tuchola Forest myth or false claims about the Polish Air Force being destroyed on the ground.

The film was part of the Nazi propaganda machine ’ s attempt to add myth and mystique to Adolf Hitler ’ s regime.

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.

Although such a charge did not happen and there were no tanks used during the combat, the myth was disseminated by German propaganda during the war with a staged Polish cavalry charge shown in their 1941 reel called " Geschwader Lützow ".

The Operation Catapult was called « treachery » by both the Vichy and Free French ; the French State exploited this series of events in its anti-British propaganda which has a long running history back to the Perfidious Albion myth.

AL was much smaller than AK, but propaganda in the People's Republic of Poland has supported the myth that it was much more significant than AK.

Here earlier forms of the myth differ from later forms ; in the earlier version, Tak notices that the geode is striving to become alive, and as reward for the service it had given, makes it into the first troll ; in a later, reedited version ( written by dwarfs as propaganda ), the geode comes alive of its own accord and was left to wander the world without purpose.

All this, according to Zobnin, makes the infamous German Radio speech looking very much like a Nazi propaganda myth, picked up first by Y. Terapiano, then authenticised by latter reiterations.

When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince " Alexander ," he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of " myth " that Aesop had introduced to the " sons of the Hellenes " had been an invention of " Syrians " from the time of " Ninos " ( personifying Nineveh to Greeks ) and Belos (" ruler ").

Rumors that the band was originally known as Dragonslayer, after the 1981 movie of the same name, were denied by King, as he stated, " We never were ; it's a myth to this day.

In a speech given in Hamburg in 1991, Irving stated that in two years time "... this myth of mass murders of Jews in the death factories of Auschwitz, Majdanek and Treblinka ... which in fact never took place " will be disproved ( Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Treblinka were all well known Vernichtungslager ).

In 1992, Irving stated that "... the Jews are very foolish not to abandon the gas chamber theory while they still have time " and claimed he " foresees a new wave of antisemitism " the world over due to Jewish " exploitation of the Holocaust myth ".

However, in a study released in 2008 by the Guttmacher Institute, author of the findings Laura Lindberg stated that there " is a widespread belief that teens engage in nonvaginal forms of sex, especially oral sex, as a way to be sexually active while still claiming that technically, they are virgins ", but that her study drew the conclusion that " research shows that this supposed substitution of oral sex for vaginal sex is largely a myth ".

She has stated that the often-repeated explanation that she left due to pregnancy is a myth that was started by producer John Nathan-Turner as she was not pregnant when she decided to leave the series.

Robert Ingersoll stated, the myth of hell represents " all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

A myth persists that the bird in the seal is in fact, a parrot, as stated in some Freshmen orientation materials.

While many critics have tried to reconstruct the truth behind the shifting narratives, or to show that such a reconstruction cannot be done with certainty or even that there are factual and logical inconsistencies that cannot be overcome, some critics have stated that, fictional truth being an oxymoron, it is best to take the story as a given, and regard it on the level of myth and archetype, a fable that allows us to glimpse the deepest levels of the unconscious and thus better understand the people who accept ( and are ruled by ) that myth — Southerners in general and Quentin Compson in particular.

The IAU nomenclature standards have stated that features on Phoebe are to be named after characters in the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts.

However, it is consistently stated in Tolkien's other writings, with regard to his creation myth, that only Eru Ilúvatar ( God ) can create new life from nothing.

In a television interview conducted for the 10th anniversary of the newsgroup posting, Held stated that this myth definitely originated from his Usenet posting which was intended only as a joke.

" Nasrallah went on to praise Garaudy for exposing " alleged Jewish Holocaust in Germany " and stated that Garaudy " proved that this Holocaust is a myth.

In response to such concerns, the HSE stated that the goggles requirement was a myth, and sponsored a Conkers tournament.

However, in 2006, Henry Spencer stated that the phenomenon of spontaneous cold welding in outer space is " basically a myth ", pointing out that " there are no documented cases of it actually occurring in orbit, except in experiments deliberately designed to provoke it ( with susceptible materials, great care to avoid contamination, and deliberate mechanical removal of oxide layers, etc .).

According to a recunstruction, based on the myth of Tenes, Walter Leaf stated that the first inhabitants of the island could be Pelasgians, who were driven out of the Anatolian mainland by the Phrygians.

The name Orc is possibly an anagram of the word cor ( heart ) in that he was stated in Blake's myth to be born of Enitharmon's heart or orca ( whale ) because he sometimes takes the form of a whale.

In fact, the myth is explicitly stated in a classroom scene in which a teacher reads an excerpt of the myth to his class.

Steinem stated that " the myth that Lovelace loved to be sexually used and humiliated was created by her husband ", and that he kept her as his prisoner.

Elise Miller, program director for the U. S. Department of Education's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ( IPEDS ) stated the idea behind the requirement: " We just want to break down the myth of sticker price and get beyond it.

Air medical transport is often stated to have first occurred in 1870 during the Siege of Paris when 160 wounded French soldiers were evacuated from the city by hot-air balloon, but this myth has been definitively disproven by full review of the crew and passenger records of each balloon which left Paris during the siege.

The myth stated that the American flag could be seen flown on the Peace Tower depicted behind Queen Elizabeth II on the bank note.