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According to the creation myth, '''Lạc Long Quân''' (Han tu: 雒龍君), is the original father of the ==Myth==

...s a bear that became a woman. She was featured prominently in the creation myth of the Korean nation. ==Myth==

...e seven-headed sea serpent or dragon slain by Baal in the Syro-Palestinian myth. ...who was also known as Yam (sea) or Nahar (river); the cosmic ocean of the creation is often known as a great stream. In the Hebrew dialect of the Old Testame

Angatupyry, by the supreme god of the Guaraní creation myth, Tupa, and left with humanity on Earth. he was sometimes referred to as The ==Myth==

==Myth== According to one of the Filipino creation myth, the accountable for opening the bamboo that let out the first man and firs

...'s lock and destruction of Daksha by Virabhadra and his ganas is a popular myth. Ganesha was chosen as their leader by Shiva, hence Ganesha's title ''gaṇ

...ing in the late 19th century, drew a parallel between the Norse [[creation myth]]s and Zoroastrian mythology that sports a primeval ox which is variously ...wing from the udders of a heavenly cow. Hathor also has a role in Egyptian creation myths. Due to the large distance in time and space separating the Old Norse

...alm of Fire. It is said that this serpent is so great it would swallow all creation but for fear of Allah's immeasurably greater power.

...ne of the most important of all the loa. He is considered to be the loa of creation and father of all the rest of the loa. ==Myth==

...d the rivers and lakes with every kind of fish. After his great efforts of creation were finally over, he thaught the ancestors how to till the soil and rear a ...d-man speak to the race of mortals: ''Let death befall each and eveyone of creation! Let every man, and every beast, both tame and wild, succumb to death!''

The anthropomorphic basis of many myth-systems meant snake-gods were rarely depicted solely as snakes. Exceptions ...and another at rest on his shoulder, ready to strike his enemies. Egyptian myth has had several snake-gods, from the 'coiled one' Mehen who assisted Ra in

...ection of legends to make two points: first, that [[legend]]s, [[Mythology|myth]]s, and [[folklore]] do not belong solely to so-called primitive or traditi ...ior without the need to resort to actual punishment. Drawbacks include the creation of [[phobia]]s, and a general distrust of one's parents when one learns tha

==Myth== ...myths date from the 3rd to the 6th century. The first writer to record the myth of Pangu was Xu Zheng (徐整) during the Three Kingdoms (三國) period.

==Myth== ...zalcoatl travels to the underworld to retrieve the human bones of the last creation. After a conversation with Michlantechutli, the Lord of Mictlan agrees to g

==Myth== ...in, in which a divine youth is associated with the orders and creatures of Creation. He turned himself into a hare. She became a greyhound. He became a fish an

...a cult of a Zapotec tribe in Oaxaca, Mexico, though it’s possible that the myth has been around for much longer as there is evidence of the Zapotec people ==Myth==

==Myth== ...fluous to point out that the redeemer married the redeemed, as in Hellenic myth Perseus married Andromeda.

...es a catalog of dwarf names, and stanza 10 has been read as describing the creation of human forms from the earth. This may potentially mean that dwarfs formed * Orchard, Andy (1997). ''Dictionary of Norse Myth and Legend''. Cassell. ISBN 0-304-34520-2

==Creation== Jacques Derrida used the myth of the undead as a means to deconstruct the binary opposition between life

Eurynome was easily the most important Goddess of Pelasgian myth. She was worshipped at a sanctuary near the confluence of rivers called the ...she began to dance across the water. It was a beautiful, sensual dance of creation. As she danced, she danced South, and faster and faster she danced until a

...dds: "The '''Leviathan was a monstrous fish''' created on the fifth day of Creation. Its story is related at length in the Talmud ''Baba Bathra 74b'', where it ...milar monsters who represented the sea as a foe to the gods in [[mythology|myth]]s of nearby cultures.

...nd supports, a particular cosmogonic, metaphysical, and mystical vision of creation and life. (1983:209) * Girardot, Norman J. 1983. ''Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism: The Theme of Chaos (Hun-Tun)''. University of

In common usage, ''myth'' means a falsehood — a story which many believe but which is not true. T ...to 1781 (OED). The adjective ''mythical'' dates to 1678; English use of ''myth'' is later, in its meaning of "untrue story" first attested in 1830.

...Zelia Bishop's "The Mound" (1940). Lovecraft effectively connected Smith's creation to his story-cycle by placing Tsathoggua alongside such entities as Tulu (C ...lieved that Lovecraft wanted other authors to actively ''write about'' the myth-cycle rather than to simply ''allude to'' it in their stories.

...em in it. Subsequent visual interpretations of the story have included the creation of Frankenstein's monster through alchemy, by the piecing together of corps ...eal, Victor goes hiking into the mountains where he encounters his "cursed creation" again, this time on the Mer de Glace, a glacier above Chamonix.

Joseph Campbell in the ''The Power of Myth'' viewed the dragon as a symbol of divinity or transcendence because it rep ...mer time. Some people think this comes from an older Mesopotamian creation myth in which Tiamat is depicted as a goddess salt-water sea monster, while othe

===Appearance and Myth=== ...as the Absolute content of pure consciousness (with all the activities of creation, preservation or dissolution) one refers to it as Kali or Shakti. However,

'''Atlach-Nacha''' is the creation of [[Clark Ashton Smith]] and first appeared in his short story "The Seven Some were the figures of well-known myth — [[gorgon]]s, [[chimaera]]s, [[dragon]]s, [[cyclops]], and all their

...o Enlil (En = Lord, Lil = Wind), King of the Gods. A separate fragmentary myth describes how Enlil raped Ninlil, and as punishment he was sent to the unde In the transfer from Sumerian myth to Babylonian Akkadian, it is suggested that Ninlil became Lilitu (-*itu be

...nclusion of her mother's ideas in her work is also related to the theme of creation/motherhood in the novel.

...as a bed for the sleeping Vishu as the god dreams our very existence into creation. ...nakes are known as as nags, an extremely old Sanscript term for them. This myth would have also been reinforced by raiding pirates from the outside world t

...s believed to have been an [[archangel]] who turned against God before the creation of man. Prophecies in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 are thought by some to be re The creation story found in the book of Genesis reports that a serpent tempted Adam and

...e entrance to Shiva's place. Garuda wondered aloud: "How marvelous is this creation! One who has created these lofty mountains has also made this tiny bird -- ...where she was guarded by serpents. The serpents are, according to another myth, the sons of Kadru herself.

...ge upon seeing her reflection in a body of water (a reference to the Greek myth of Narcissus). It is her vanity that Satan taps into in order to persuade h ...n of God in action, the physical connection between God the Father and his creation, together forming a complete and perfect God. He personifies love and compa

in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. He is the creation of [[Clark Ashton Smith]] and is part of his [[Hyperborean cycle]]. ...pts and the Necronomicon and the [[Hyperborean cycle#Commoriom|Commoriom]] myth-cycle preserved by the [[Atlantis|Atlantean]] high-priest [[Cthulhu Mythos

...eceased. Subsequently, this apparent infidelity of Osiris was explained in myth, in which it was said that a sexually frustrated Nepthys had disguised hers Some more homophobic versions of the myth depict [[Set]] as the father.

The Fates were assisted by the god Hermes in the creation of the Pelasgian alphabet. They also helped the Olympian Gods on more than * Carl Ruck and Danny Staples, ''The World of Classical Myth'', 1994.

* [[Antelopes with Six Legs]] - According to Siberian myth, these six-legged antelopes were far too fast for human beings to catch. A * [[Eater of the Dead]] - Most commonly associated with Egyptian myth, the Eater attends to the "wicked". It is described as having the head of a

...nd Piccard. Their retelling of the Spear myth stretches from its purported creation in 3061 B.C. by Tubal-Cain, seventh generation grandson of Adam (the Spear

...other angels showed a degree of suspicion when God informed them about the creation of man as the regent (caliph) of all things on Earth, but they ultimately p ...Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, as this is an allusion to the Genesis myth) in order to expose the Abrahamic God for the evil being he truly was. Stre

...the Roman Catholic Church talks about). Bondyè is distant from his/her/its creation though, and so it is the spirits or the "mysteries", "saints", or "[[angel] ...voodoo dolls". While there is ethnobotanical evidence relating to "zombie" creation, it is a minor phenomenon within rural Haitian culture and not a part of th

The first accounts of the Wendigo myth by explorers and missionaries date back to the 17th century. They describe ...possessed by its spirit in a dream. When the cannibalistic element of the myth is stressed, it is assumed that anyone who eats corpses in a famine becomes

The phoenix myth is referred to in Shakespeare's play ''The Tempest', ...ears to die but it is reavelled he chose a new life/birth patrolling these myth worlds and keeping them safe.

...the eagle (king of the air), the bull (king of the farm), and man (king of creation); and, according to St. Jerome, Christ's Incarnation (the man), His Passion ...they could assume their animal natures as well. All the creatures of Greek myth that combine human and animal form are survivals of the pre-Olympian religi

...Arms'' (London 1859) notes, under the badge of the Earl of Ormonde (first creation) as recorded in a College of Arms manuscript under Edward IV, the single co *A griffin ghost-writes myth and legend novels and reads stories to children at a local library in ''Col

...ds to conflict with established religious and political structures, or the creation of splinter groups or new faiths. ...ge (''[[gnosis]]'') as the central goal of life. They also commonly depict creation as a [[dualistic]] struggle between competing forces of light and dark, and

The origin of Lucifer goes back to Canaantie or Phoenician myth about Helel, who is the son of the god Shahar. ...th devoted an entire album ("Damnation and a Day") to telling the story of creation and mankind's progression through Lucifer's eyes

*An [[Urban legend|urban myth]] of mummies being used as fuel for locomotives was popularized by Mark Twa ...arianism, left instructions to be followed upon his death which led to the creation of a sort of modern-day mummy. He asked that his body be displayed to illu

==In Christian myth and legend== Adam was the first man, and man was the greatest creation of God, iblis could not stand this, and refused to aknowledge a creature ma

...sent day all the way back to the beginning of time (with a unique creation myth).

...monies can include a dramatic aspect, such as a dramatic re-enactment of a myth (also known as sacred drama), a pageant, or a dramatic reading. Another significant development was the creation by feminists of Dianic Wicca, or feminist Dianic Witchcraft. This is a spec

...P. Evans and Donald Rumbelow argue that the "canonical five" is a "Ripper myth" and that the probable number of victims could range from three (Nichols, C ...thrust through her abdomen". It has been suggested that "Fairy Fay" was a creation of the press based upon confusion of the details of the murder of Emma Eliz

...rced to come up with their own remedies just to keep the Vampire out. The myth that the Vampire cannot cross the threshold of a house without first being The Vampire has haunted humanity since the day of creation. Legend has it that Cain, after killing his brother Abel, was cursed by Go