myth
121Myth and geology — Geomythology is the study of alleged referencees to geological events in mythology. The term was coined in 1968 by Dorothy Vitaliano, a geologist at Indiana University.: Geomythology indicates every case in which the origin of myths and legends… …
122Myth of the Flat Earth — For mythologies involving the belief in a Flat Earth, see Flat Earth. The famous Flat Earth Flammarion engraving originates with Flammarion s 1888 L atmosphère: météorologie populaire (p. 163) …
123myth, fable, legend — A myth is not only a legendary or traditional story, usually one concerning a superhuman being and dealing with events that have no natural explanation (See mysterious), but also an unproved belief and an invented idea or story: The story of… …
124Myth of the nines — In information technology, the myth of the nines is the idea that standard measurements of high availability can be misleading. Availability is sometimes described in units of nines, as in five nines , or 99.999%. Having a computer system s… …
125Myth system — A Myth system is a set of several different which are related through shared features and by links that describes the transformation from one to another. In the seminal works of structuralist anthropology The Raw and the Cooked , Lévi Strauss… …
126Myth of Osiris and Isis — The Myth of Osiris and Isis, concerning the deities of Egyptian mythology Osiris, Isis, Horus, and Set, became one of the most important and powerful in Egyptian mythology during the New Kingdom. The myth concerns the death of Osiris and the… …
127Myth of the Cave — This article is about the Yedid suite. For Plato s allegorical story, see Allegory of the cave. Myth of the Cave is a suite in five movements for clarinet/bass clarinet, double bass and piano, composed by Yitzhak Yedid in Jerusalem, Israel, 2002 …
128myth of the cave — Not properly a myth, but the figure or allegory used by Plato in Bk. vii. 514–18 of the Republic, to demonstrate the degrees to which our natures may be enlightened, or unenlightened. At the first stage are prisoners, tied so that they can… …
