Meanings of etiological myth in English

Best, then, to give her art an origin myth.

The origin myth is perhaps the most interesting part of any superhero story; for some, the only interesting part.

Asked if there's a Korean legend either would like to see adapted onscreen for diaspora audiences, Cho nominated the origin myth of Korea.

I read a lot of elephant origin myths during my research process, and they were mesmerizing.

Just like all of your origin myths.'

Washington DC is no exception, although being a modern capital, its founding myth is somewhat more modest and believable.

As a founding myth.

He'd not seen the battle himself, of course; he was too young, but the tale of Omar's eye had the power of a founding myth.

The walls were decorated with old paintings-cowboysand Indians and landscapes of a frontier nation; Washington crossing the Delaware, that founding myth of American determination.

All states have their founding myths, and unionists frequently indulge in many myths of their own.

All Greek tragedies that we know have as their nucleus something which the Greeks called an Aition- acauseor origin.