Talk:Origin myth

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Vague[edit]

"... that purports to describe the origin of some feature of the natural or social world..." which are?

The illustration do not provide a good example. That Iceland became populated from Norway is not a myth, it's a historical fact. Exodus might provide a better example, where the myth described in the Bible claim origin from Egypt, while it's not supported or even contradicted by archeology. --Finn Bjørklid (talk) 13:17, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Finn above - the settling of Iceland occured in the 9th century AD - thousands of years later than the ancient times of unverifiable myth - there are many other more ancient examples that would be better suited to this topic - valkyree — Preceding unsigned comment added by Valkyree (talk • contribs) 00:06, 3 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Change name back to origin myth[edit]

The name of this page was changed from origin myth to myth of origins in 2010, with the rationale "significantly more common form of phrase, per Google".

Today, at least, reliable sources don't bear that out. Google N-gram shows a significant preference for "origin myth"; a Google Scholar search for "origin myth" from 2000 to present returns about 5 000 results, compared with about 1 900 for "myth of origins".

So, I'm changing the name back.—Neil P. Quinn (talk) 04:05, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nature timeline image[edit]

Why is the nature timeline here? It is not referenced in the article, it seems out of place? (103.4.237.122 (talk) 02:44, 10 February 2017 (UTC))[reply]

Agreed and removed. Doug Weller talk 18:45, 12 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Changing myth to story (when the source says myth)[edit]

According to WP:VER, information should not be changed at whim. Do also read WP:CENSOR. Tgeorgescu (talk) 04:45, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Eliade[edit]

It could be said that Eliade embraced at a certain point some variant of fascism. But he was not an ideologue of fascism, neither has he committed war crimes. He was simply one of the many seduced by it. He remained in the USA, which was not friendly for fascists, except for scientists and engineers who could not be replaced. The evidence that he engaged in crimes against humanity simply isn't there. Tgeorgescu (talk) 06:04, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]