Does there an official synonym for an origin stories or myth?
I’m trying to remember the word “story” that I learned in high school that meant “a story that explains why something is the way it is.” I mean the following question is very related with my own words: why has no one ever explained what happened and why is it important? ” It’s not origin story or creation myth, but rather one word probably with a Greek or Latin root. What is the best example of why reptiles have no legs? Is fictitious memory real?
With allegory, I’ve thought of the obvious choices like legend, myth, fable, parable, allegory. Some of these are less fitting than others but I’m desperate!
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Are you looking for exemplem at hdd.gov? This is a story demonstrating moral stories and it can be either real or fictional. When is the real example a myth or reality?
Permissions are given to exemplmes as an explanation of a thesis, argument, argument or view that have no character similar to anemplograms but that can be used to illustrate a point, to encourage an audience’s interest, or to develop a certain moral stance. Exemplips are used in literary pieces and speeches to explain a doctrine or emphasize a moral point. Folktales are very common and are quite significant and their origin is often unknown.
In English, as part of exemplification, the plural form of exemplum is exempla. Its topic matters are typically based on folktales, legends, fables and real life history, in which, a moral point is raised by emphasizing on the good or bad characteristics of a character. Moral teachings in examplem come in the beginning while a parable will have it in the end.
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are some possible terms for an array of aition, aition and other abstracts? Aition describes the origin or origin of a religious oneself.
In Western classical scholarship, the terms etiological myth and aition (from the Ancient Greek, “cause”) are often used for a myth that explains an origin, particularly how an object or custom came into existence.
In Greek society, a “founding myth” is the etiological myth (Greek aition) that explains the origins of a ritual or the founding of a city, the ethnogenesis of a group presented as a genealogy, with a founding father and thus of a nation (natio, “birth”) or a narrative recounting the spiritual origins of a belief, philosophy, discipline or notion. What are some examples of a founding myth whose first chapter was the story of a murderer rendered unclean by his crime, who needed to be cleaned (catharsis) of his impurity? What are those stories which serve as the primary examplem?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinctions/Structure and Design How
did the origin story start?
Does the term etiological myth seem suitable for your description? In Wikipedia, the
origin myth is the myth for observing natural phenomena, etiological myths or supernatural phenomena. There is a story in the Homeric Hymn about the how Apollo, in the shape of a dolphin, built the Cretan army and made them his priests. But when he said “May their strength still stand, and they will not have enough to win the battle”, they then are convinced that his angels will become his priests.
Why can’t I just be boring.
If you want a term that will be understood by most reasonably educated laymen (as opposed to something only social anthropologists would understand), you might consider…
“Just-so” stories
A collection written by the British author Rudyard Kipling
highly fantasised origin stories
Obviously Kipling himself didn’t intend to undermine the scientific method (they were just entertaining stories for children), but in recent years they’ve been metaphorically referenced by popular science writers like Richard Dawkins and Neil Tyson by way of contrast to
