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An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world. Creation myths are a type of origin myth narrating the formation of the universe. However, numerous cultures have stories that take place after the initial origin.
Ancient Egyptian creation myths. Fon creation myth. Kaang creation story (Bushmen) Kintu myth (Bugandan) Mandé creation myth. Mbombo (Kuba, Bakuba or Bushongo/Boshongo) Ngai (Kamba, Kikuyu and Maasai ) Serer creation myth (cosmogony of the Serer people of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania) Unkulunkulu (Zulu)
The possible origin of this myth is that ivory teeth quickly became stained and may have had the appearance of wood to observers. George Washington's dentures on display at Mount Vernon. The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence did not occur on July 4, 1776.
- The Death of Catherine the Great. The legend learned in the playground by all British school children—and those of a fair few other countries—is that Catherine the Great was crushed while trying to have sex with a horse.
- The 300 Who Held Thermopylae. The film version of "300" told a heroic story of how just three hundred Spartan warriors held a narrow pass against a Persian army numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
- Medieval People Believed in a Flat Earth. In some quarters, the fact that the Earth is a globe is regarded as a modern discovery, and there are few things people trying to attack the supposed backwardness of the medieval period like more than claiming they all thought the Earth was flat.
- Mussolini Got the Trains Running on Time. The exasperated commuter often remarks that at least Italian dictator Mussolini managed to get the trains working on time, and there was plenty of publicity at the time explaining how he’d done so.
- Democracy will always prevail. According to Snyder, the collapse of the Soviet Union gave birth to the myth that all countries will eventually become democracies.
- The past was better. This myth is not only false, said Snyder, but dangerous: nostalgia might evoke a time or place that only existed in the imagination.
- New technologies make people smarter. When you think of the newspaper, radio or television, visions of a more connected world come to mind. But according to Snyder, new technologies don’t automatically make people more intelligent.
- Globalization is a recent phenomenon. Globalization is the process that allows people, products and ideas to move easily across borders. It has dominated recent headlines thanks to Donald Trump, but according to Snyder, it’s not a new concept.
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) proposes that the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) cool period ( stadial) at the end of the Last Glacial Period, around 12,900 years ago was the result of some kind of extraterrestrial event with specific details varying between publications. [1] : . Sec 1 The hypothesis is controversial and not widely ...
Aug 22, 2016 · A panel of 77 atmospheric scientists and geochemists weigh in on the controversial streaks in the sky. These days it's a common sight: hazy streaks crisscrossing the sky left from passing ...
