Meanings of founding myth in English

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.

Yet without such founding myths, it might have been less easy to integrate the new movement into the Church.