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Meanings of founding myth in inglês

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Myth that purports to describe the origin of some feature of the natural or social world.

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Examples for "myth of origins"
Examples for "myth of origins"
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Best, then, to give her art an origin myth.
The Guardian
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The origin myth is perhaps the most interesting part of any superhero story; for some, the only interesting part.
The Guardian
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Asked if there's a Korean legend either would like to see adapted onscreen for diaspora audiences, Cho nominated the origin myth of Korea.
News.com.au
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I read a lot of elephant origin myths during my research process, and they were mesmerizing.
Reuters
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Just like all of your origin myths.'
Blood and Bone
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[Footnote 9: This story of the rape of the Sabines belongs to the class of what are called "etiological " myths-i.
Roman History, Books I-III
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All Greek tragedies that we know have as their nucleus something which the Greeks called an Aition- acauseor origin.
The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides
Usage of founding myth in inglês
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Washington DC is no exception, although being a modern capital, its founding myth is somewhat more modest and believable.
The Irish Times
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As a founding myth.
Kalooki Nights
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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 forever war
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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.
The increment: a novel
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All states have their founding myths, and unionists frequently indulge in many myths of their own.
The Irish Times
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Yet without such founding myths, it might have been less easy to integrate the new movement into the Church.
Christianity: the first three thousand years
Translations for founding myth
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mito fundador