Culture myth

Culture myth
Culture myth Culture myth A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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