Meanings of origin myth in английском

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.

[Footnote 9: This story of the rape of the Sabines belongs to the class of what are called "etiological " myths-i.

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