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1929 Belgian banknote , depicting Ceres , Neptune and caduceus
Myth is a genre of folklore or theology consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths . For folklorists, historians, philosophers or theologians this is very different from the use of "myth" simply indicating that something is not true. Instead, the truth value of a myth is not a defining criterion.
Myths are often endorsed by secular and religious authorities and are closely linked to religion or spirituality . Many societies group their myths, legends, and history together, considering myths and legends to be true accounts of their remote past. In particular, creation myths take place in a primordial age when the world had not achieved its later form. Other myths explain how a society's customs , institutions , and taboos were established and sanctified. There is a complex relationship between recital of myths and the enactment of rituals . (Full article... )
... that, in the lives of saints , the appearance of roses (example pictured) sometimes announces the presence or activity of God ?
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Winged hippocamp in an Art Deco fountain, Kansas City, Missouri , (1937)
The
hippocampus or
hippocamp, also
hippokampos (plural: hippocampi or hippocamps;
Ancient Greek :
ἱππόκαμπος , from
ἵππος , 'horse', and
κάμπος , 'sea monster'), often called a
sea-horse in English, is a mythological creature shared by
Phoenician ,
Etruscan ,
Pictish ,
Roman and
Greek mythology , though its name has a Greek origin. The hippocampus has typically been depicted as having the upper body of a
horse with the lower body of a
fish . (
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The following are images from various myth-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Ancient Sumerian
cylinder seal impression showing the god
Dumuzid being tortured in the
Underworld by
galla demons (from
Comparative mythology )
Image 2 Prometheus (1868) by
Gustave Moreau . In the mythos of
Hesiodus and possibly
Aeschylus (the
Greek trilogy
Prometheus Bound ,
Prometheus Unbound and
Prometheus Pyrphoros ), Prometheus is bound and tortured for giving fire to humanity. (from
Myth )
Image 3 The fall of Icarus (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 4 Thor wearing the magic belt Megingjörð (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 5 Early Hebrew Conception of the Universe (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 6 Perillos being forced into the brazen bull that he built for Phalaris (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 7 Several mythical creatures from
Bilderbuch für Kinder (
lit. ' picture book for children ' ) between 1790 and 1822, by
Friedrich Justin Bertuch (from
Legendary creature )
Image 8 Ahimelech giving the sword of Goliath to David , by
Aert de Gelder . (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 9 Ancient Roman relief from the
Cathedral of Maria Saal showing the infant twins
Romulus and Remus being suckled by a she-wolf (from
Comparative mythology )
Image 10 Väinämöinen , the wise
demigod and one of the significant characters of
Finnish mythological 19th-century epic poetry,
The Kalevala (Väinämöinen's Play , Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1866) (from
Myth )
Image 11 Hanuman fetches the herb-bearing mountain, in a print from the Ravi Varma Press, 1910's (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 12 Jacob blesses Joseph and gives him the coat of many colors (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 13 Hop-o'-My-Thumb stealing the Seven-league boots from the
Ogre , by
Gustave Doré (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 14 Claíomh Solais on an Ireland stamp printed in 1922 (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 15 Joan of Arc with her famous sword (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 16 Myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria (1916) (from
Myth )
Image 17 Edith Hamilton 's
Mythology has been a major channel for English speakers to learn classical Greek and Roman mythology (from
Myth )
Image 19 Fountain of Youth (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 20 Longinus with his famous Spear (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 21 The Deluge , frontispiece to
Gustave Doré 's illustrated edition of the Bible. Based on the story of
Noah's Ark , this engraving shows humans and a tiger doomed by the flood futilely attempting to save their children and cubs. (from
Comparative mythology )
Image 22 The Flying Dutchman (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 23 A 19th-century drawing of Sun Wukong featuring his staff (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 24 An angel (Camael) expelling Adam and Eve with a flaming sword (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 25 Fig trees often represent talismans with the udumbara (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 26 Greek God Kronos/Saturnus with sickle (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 27 The Dispute of Minerva and Neptune (
c. 1689 or 1706) by
René-Antoine Houasse , depicting the
founding myth of
Athens (from
National myth )
Image 29 Aura, a field of luminous radiation surrounding a person or object (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 30 The Crown of Immortality, held by the
allegorical figure
Eterna (Eternity) (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 31 Amenonuhoko (天沼矛 or 天之瓊矛 or 天瓊戈,
"heavenly jeweled spear" ) is the name given to the spear in
Shinto used to raise the primordial land-mass,
Onogoro-shima , from the sea (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 32 Vishnu holding his legendary sword Nandaka (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 33 "The Fall of Man" by
Lucas Cranach the Elder and the Tree of Knowledge is on the right (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 34 Thor kicks
Litr onto Baldr's Hringhorni, illustration by
Emil Doepler (ca. 1905) (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 35 The Ash Yggdrasil by Friedrich Wilhelm Heine (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 36 Dietrich von Bern and Hildebrand fight against dragons (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 37 Giza pyramids (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 38 The Shrine of the Three Kings in
Cologne Cathedral (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 39 Killing of Ravana Painting by Brahmstra of Arrow of Brahma (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 40 14th century
Goryeo painting of
Ksitigarbha holding a
cintamani (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 41 Jason returns with Golden fleece (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 42 Ballads of bravery (1877) part of
Arthurian mythology (from
Myth )
Image 43 Tissot Moses and Joshua in the Tabernacle (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 44 Odysseus Overcome by Demodocus' Song , by Francesco Hayez, 1813–1815 (from
Myth )
Image 45 Lichas bringing the garment of Nessus to Hercules (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 46 seven angels with seven trumpets (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 47 Voodoo doll with pins in it, Museum of Witchcraft (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 48 Shield of Achilles (illustration) (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 49 Snake and world egg of the inhabitants of Tyre (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 50 Opening lines of one of the
Mabinogi myths from the
Red Book of Hergest (written pre-13c, incorporating pre-Roman myths of Celtic gods):
Gereint vab Erbin. Arthur a deuodes dala llys yg Caerllion ar Wysc... (Geraint the son of Erbin. Arthur was accustomed to hold his Court at Caerlleon upon Usk...) (from
Myth )
Image 51 Jug from Lydian Treasure Usak (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 52 The Stone of Destiny (Lia Fáil) at the Hill of Tara, once used as a coronation stone for the High Kings of Ireland (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 53 Shiva with his Trishula (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 54 Golem and Loew (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 55 King Svafrlame Secures the Sword Tyrfing (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 56 Golden cosmic egg Hiranyagarbha by Manaku (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 57 Azoth , a universal medicine or universal solvent sought in alchemy. (Medieval legend) (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 58 The Celestial Chariot, Pushpaka Vimana from Ramayana (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 59 Surya on His Celestial Chariot (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 60 Achilles wearing his armor (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 61 Yama with his famous Yama Pasha (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 62 The Argo (
c. 1500 – 1530), painting by
Lorenzo Costa (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 63 Artist's impressions of the (unseen) Imperial Regalia of Japan (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 64 Symbolic power: a
dragon in the
Imperial City, Huế , Vietnam (from
Legendary creature )
Image 65 This panel by
Bartolomeo di Giovanni relates the second half of the
Metamorphoses . In the upper left, Jupiter emerges from clouds to order Mercury to rescue Io. (from
Myth )
Image 66 The third gift — an enormous hammer (1902) by
Elmer Boyd Smith and the ring Draupnir is visible among other creations by the
Sons of Ivaldi (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 67 The famous sword of Excalibur painted by
Howard Pyle (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 68 The Honest Woodcutter , also known as
Mercury and the Woodman and his famous
Golden Axe (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 69 1929
Belgian banknote , depicting
Ceres ,
Neptune and
caduceus (from
Myth )
Image 70 Veronica holding her veil,
Hans Memling , c. 1470 (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 71 Adam's Bridge also called as Rama Setu (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 72 Lord Vishnu took the form of Beauty Mohini and distributed the Amrita (Ambrosia, Elixir) to Devas. When Rahu (snake dragon) tried to steal the Amrita, his head was cut off (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 73 "Tizona", the sword attributed to El Cid, on exhibit in the Army Museum of Madrid (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 74 As is usual in
bestiaries , the lynx in this late 13th-century English manuscript is shown urinating, the urine turning to the mythical stone Lyngurium (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 75 Rectangular tablets passed down by the
Hand of God in the 10th century
Byzantine Leo Bible (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 76 Holy Robe in Trier (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 77 Houyi, the God of Archery (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 78 Fortune Wheel (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 80 Heracles would use arrows dipped in the Hydra's poisonous blood to kill other foes during his
Labours , such as
Stymphalian birds and the giant (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 81 The Giving of the Seven Bowls of Wrath / The First Six Plagues, Revelation 16:1–16.
Matthias Gerung , c. 1531 (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 82 Sampo , a magical artifact of indeterminate type constructed by
Ilmarinen that brought riches and good fortune to its holder, in the Finnish
epic poetry Kalevala (
The Forging of the Sampo , Joseph Alanen, 1911) (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 83 Vishnu with his Panchajanya (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 84 Riding a Flying Carpet , an 1880 painting by
Viktor Vasnetsov (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 85 Goetia seal of solomon (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 86 Image showing the sacred tree to the right of the temple, from
Olaus Magnus '
Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (1555). To the right of the tree is a depiction of a man being sacrificed in the spring (from
List of mythological objects )
Image 87 Erlang Shen (二郎神), or
Erlang is a
Chinese God with his spear (from
List of mythological objects )
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