High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A founding myth is the etiological myth that explains the origins of a ritual or the founding of a city, the ethnogenesis of a group presented as a genealogy, with a founding father and thus of a nation or a narrative recounting the spiritual origins of a belief, philosophy, discipline, or idea. A founding myth may serve as the primary exemplum, as the myth of Ixion was the original example of a murderer rendered unclean by his crime, who needed cleansing of his impurity. Founding myths are prominent features of Greek mythology and the Hebrew Bible. "Ancient Greek rituals were bound to prominent local groups and hence to specific localities," Walter Burkert has observed. "i.e. the sanctuaries and altars that had been set up for all time."

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