An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world. Creation myths are a type of origin myth narrating...

its later form. Origin myths explain how a society's customs, institutions, and taboos were established and sanctified. National myths are narratives about...

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...

geneticist Dan Bradley of Trinity College Dublin rejecting the Spanish origin myth. Some researchers have suggested the concept of "Black Irish" as the...

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...

origins of the different elements in Rome's foundation myth are a subject of ongoing debate. They may have come from the Romans' own Italic origins,...