dictionary. An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world. One specific kind of origin myth is the...

foundational tales or origin myths. For folklorists, historians, philosophers or theologians this is very different from the use of "myth" simply indicating...

etiologies. Thus, an etiological myth, or origin myth, is a myth that has arisen, been told over time or written to explain the origins of various social or natural...

A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it. While...

of Trinity College Dublin rejecting the Spanish origin myth. Some researchers have suggested the myth of the Black Irish as the descendants of Spanish...

theological contexts Creation myth, a symbolic account of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it Origin myth, a story or explanation that...

it is a type of origin myth, a myth that describes the origin of some feature of the natural or social world. No one type of these myths is universal, but...

janapada itself. The myth of the Shakyas' ancestors being four pairs of married twin siblings was a myth which traced the origins of the ruling Shakya...

the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the global flood. Other Sumerian creation myths include the Barton Cylinder, the Debate...

The Boogeyman: The Origin of the Myth (Spanish: El hombre del saco) is a 2023 Spanish-Uruguayan teen fantasy horror film directed by Ángel Gómez Hernández [de]...