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See all on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_mythAn origin myth is a myth that describes the origin of some feature of the natural or social world. One type of origin myth is the creation or cosmogonic myth, one that describes the creation of the world. However, many cultures have stories set after the cosmogonic myth, which describe the origin of
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See moreEvery origin myth is a tale of creation: origin myths describe how some reality came into existence. In many cases, origin myths also justify the established order by explaining that it was established by sacred forces (see section
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See moreAn origin myth often functions to justify the current state of affairs. In traditional cultures, the entities and forces described in origin myths are often considered sacred. Thus, by
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See moreFoundational stories are accounts of the development of cities and nations. A foundational story represents the view that the creation of the city is a
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See more• Belayche, Nicole. "Foundation myths in Roman Palestine. Traditions and reworking", in Ton Derks, Nico Roymans (ed.), Ethnic Constructs in
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A "founding myth" or etiological myth (Greek aition) explains either:
• the origins of a ritual or of the founding of a city
• the ethnogenesis of a group presented as a genealogy with a founding father and thus of a nation (natio, 'birth')...
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Category:Origin myths. Categorising a story as a myth does not necessarily imply that it is untrue. Religion and mythology differ, but have overlapping aspects. Many English speakers understand the terms "myth" and "mythology" to mean fictitious or imaginary. However, according to many dictionary definitions, these terms can also mean a ...
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Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. Since the term myth is widely used to imply that a story is not objectively true, the identification of a narrative as a myth can be highly controversial: many adherents of religions view their own religion's stories as true, and therefore object to those stories being characterized as myths, while seeing the stories of other religions as being myth. A…
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1. Enûma Eliš (Babyloniancreation myth) 2. Greek cosmogonical myth 3. Jamshid 4. Korean creation narratives 5. Kumulipo 6. Leviathan (Book of Job38–41 creation myth) 7. Mandé creation myth 8. Pangu 9. Raven in Creation 10. Serer creation myth 11. Sumerian creation myth 12. Tung… - Earth diver
1. Ainu creation myth 2. Cherokee creation myth 3. Iroquois creation myth 4. Väinämöinen 5. Yoruba creation myth 6. Ob-Ugric creation myth
- Creation from chaos
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- "... that purports to describe the origin of some feature of the natural or social world..." which are? The illustration do not provide a good example. That Iceland became populated from Norway is not a myth, it's a historical fact. Exodus might provide a better example, where the myth described in the Bible claim origin from Egypt, while it's not ...
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