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myth and proved
No animal of any substantial size was found whatsoever and despite high hopes, the scientists involved in the expedition admitted that this essentially proved the Loch Ness monster was only a myth.
Gerwarth ( 2007 ) shows that the Bismarck myth, built up predominantly during his years of retirement and even more stridently after his death, proved a powerful rhetorical and ideological tool.
In the myth, however, their interaction ultimately proved to be unbalanced, resulting in the arising of a new entity.
The number of false codes submitted to IGN dropped dramatically, as Luigi's inclusion was proved to be a myth.
" Nasrallah went on to praise Garaudy for exposing " alleged Jewish Holocaust in Germany " and stated that Garaudy " proved that this Holocaust is a myth.
* According to the US-Israeli organisation MEMRI, in a speech aired on Al-Manar and Al-Jazeera in 2006, Nasrallah expressed support for alleged Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy calling him a " great French philosopher " who " proved ( sic ) that this Holocaust is a myth ".
As Quine states in Two Dogmas, " The myth of physical objects is epistemologically superior to most in that it has proved more efficacious than other myths as a device for working a manageable structure into the flux of
However, the engine block crack was proved to be an urban myth.
Armand Millet, a French violet grower, proved this belief to be a myth, however, and with the right conditions any sturdy violet could well produce a seed pod.
He has stated that Mitsubishi's purchase of the Rockfeller Center for such a large amount of money, convinced of the myth that land prices would rise ever higher, contributed to the turning point that was the bursting of Japan's economic bubble, and that the eventual stock price crash proved that there was excessive asset inflation in the economy.
The " Memoir " also proved instrumental in the development of the Fountain of Youth legend as an early mention of Juan Ponce de León looking for the healing waters in Florida, a detail almost inseparable from the myth today.

myth and be
The ancient types are reassembled in gloom and foreboding to be irresistibly drawn to their destinies, but the myth fails before the modern truth ; ;
We shall not be able entirely to pass over these connections to the East as we consider Ripe Geometric pottery, the epic and the myth, and the religious evolution of early Greece ; ;
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.
According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).
Alan Cameron, however, argues that it should be interpreted as referring to Plato, and that when Proclus writes that " we must bear in mind concerning this whole feat of the Athenians, that it is neither a mere myth nor unadorned history, although some take it as history and others as myth ", he is treating " Crantor's view as mere personal opinion, nothing more ; in fact he first quotes and then dismisses it as representing one of the two unacceptable extremes ".
In the 16th-century invention of a suitably antique origin myth for the Dutch people that would be expressive of their self-identification as separate from their neighbors in the national struggle with Spain of the Eighty Years War for Dutch independence, the Batavians came to be regarded as their eponymous ancestors.
Many academic historians hold the idea that the German armed forces adopted " blitzkrieg " as an offensive doctrine to be a myth.
These waves, until 1995, were considered to be a mystery and / or a myth.
The Bible may or may not be factually accurate but is designed to teach spiritual lessons through allegory and myth.
According to the myth, cattle are slow-moving, slow-witted and weak-legged, and can easily be pushed over without much force, both because they have a high center of gravity, and because they sleep standing.
The myth in Catasterismi may be derived from the fact that a set of constellations appear close together in the sky, in and near the Zodiac sign of Libra, namely Ursa Minor, Ursa Major, Boötes, and Virgo.
" In other words, myth tells how, through the deeds of Supernatural Beings, a reality came into existence, be it the whole of reality, the Cosmos, or only a fragment of reality – an island, a species of plant, a particular kind of human behavior, an institution.
However, other Christian authors assert that Christian narratives should not be categorized as " myth ".
According to Every, one example may be " the myth of St. George " and other stories about saints battling dragons, which were " modelled no doubt in many cases on older representations of the creator and preserver of the world in combat with chaos ".
Traditional myth provided the subject matter but the dramatist was meant to be innovative so as to sustain interest, which led to novel characterization of heroic figures and to use of the mythical past to talk about present issues.
Study aids, in particular with potted biographies, might be seen to help propagate the Orwell myth so that as an embodiment of human values he is presented as a " trustworthy guide ", while examination questions sometimes suggest a " right ways of answering " in line with the myth.
As Hills concludes: " The flag myth ... may perhaps be allowed now to disappear from Anglo-Spanish polemics.
The Jewish calendar's reference point is traditionally held to be about one year before the Genesis creation myth | Creation of the world.
If he succeeded, he would be purified of his sin and, as myth says, he would be granted immortality.
According to a myth thought to be of ancient origins, Iolaus was Heracles ' charioteer and squire.
There was some objection to the term, as many writers preferred terms such as " poetic painting " ( poesia ), or wanted to make a distinction between the " true " istoria, covering history including biblical and religious scenes, and the fabula, covering pagan myth, allegory, and scenes from fiction, which could not be regarded as true.

myth and weapon
Another myth describes Polish cavalry as being armed with both sabres and lances ; lances were used for peacetime ceremonial purposes only and the primary weapon of the Polish cavalryman in 1939 was a rifle.
In a Teutonic version of the myth of the death of Balder, Miming's sword is the weapon that Hodur uses to slay Balder ; here, Hodur is not blind but is instead a physically potent figure.
In another myth, related in the Book of the Heavenly Cow from the New Kingdom ( c. 1550 – 1070 BC ), Ra uses the Eye as a weapon against humans who have rebelled against his authority.

myth and against
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.
Every argues that " the disparagement of myth in our own civilization " stems partly from objections to perceived idolatry, objections which intensified in the Reformation, both among Protestants and among Catholics reacting against the classical mythology revived during the Renaissance.
* An article against " The myth of the permanent arms economy "
A myth persists that government officials on Ellis Island compelled immigrants to take new names against their wishes.
Robert Segal asserts that by pitting mythical thought against modern scientific thought, such theories implied that modern man must abandon myth.
" In cult, Poseidon was identified with Erechtheus ," Walter Burkert noted ; " the myth turns this into a temporal-causal sequence: in his anger at losing, Poseidon led his son Eumolpus against Athens and killed Erectheus.
Rossini's opera William Tell ( 1829 ) marked the onset of the Romantic Opera, using the central national myth unifying Switzerland ; and in Brussels, a riot ( August 1830 ) after an opera that set a doomed romance against a background of foreign oppression ( Auber's La Muette de Portici ) sparked the Belgian Revolution of 1830-1831, the first successful revolution in the model of Romantic nationalism.
Thuggee trace their origin to the battle of Kali against Raktabija ; however, their foundation myth departs from Brahminical versions of the Puranas.
In most variations of this myth, Oceanus also refused to side with Kronos in the latter's revolt against their father, Ouranos.
Oedipus represents two enduring themes of Greek myth and drama: the flawed nature of humanity and an individual's powerlessness against the course of destiny in a harsh universe.
While this account of his death has been superficially Christianised, it also bears strong resemblances to the Scandinavian myth of Thor's fight against Hrungnir, suggesting either a common origin of the two episodes or a later borrowing during the era of Viking influence in Ireland.
The national folklore of many nations includes a founding myth, which may involve a struggle against colonialism or a war of independence.
In response to critics, Graves has accused literary scholars of being psychologically incapable of interpreting myth or too concerned with maintaining their perquisites to go against the majority view.
One myth surrounding the moon was to account for the " dark spots "; it was believed that a fox fell in love with Mama Quilla because of her beauty, but when he rose into the sky, she squeezed him against her, producing the patches.
In a later myth developed around an annual drunken Sekhmet festival, Ra, the sun god, created her from a fiery eye gained from his mother, Hathor ( daughter of Ra ), to destroy mortals who conspired against him ( Lower Egypt ).
" According to myth, Resheph exerted a benign influence against disease.
Contrary to the popular urban legend myth, the Nazis did not discriminate against " Aryans " who did not have blonde hair or light-eyes, or had only one of these features.
In a later myth developed around the annual drunken Sekhmet festival, Ra, by then the sun god of Upper Egypt, created her from a fiery eye gained from his mother, to destroy mortals who conspired against him ( Lower Egypt ).
Walt argues against the " safe-haven myth " in Afghanistan and that Obama's justification for escalating the war is flawed.
Eventually evidence against the hypothesized existence of pertussis vaccine encephalopathy mounted to the point that in 1990, the Journal of American Medical Association called it a " myth " and " nonsense ".
A popular myth tells of Penn dismissing the charges against Matson by affirming her legal right to fly on a broomstick.
This has led to a campaign by the California EPA against the 3, 000 mile myth, promoting vehicle manufacturer's recommendations for oil change intervals over those of the oil change industry.
The other myth is the story of Nergal, the plague god, whose offence against Ereshkigal, his banishment to the kingdom controlled by the goddess and the reconciliation between Nergal and Ereshkigal through the latter's offer to have Nergal share the honors of the rule over Irkalla.
When the show aired in the United States on the 2007 Transgender Day of Remembrance, trans author Julia Serano noted, " Programs like ' There's Something About Miriam ' not only reinforce the stereotype that trans people's birth sex is ' real ' and our identified / lived sex is ' fake ,' but they perpetuate the myth of deception and thus enable violence against us.

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