The national and class myths that lay at the festivals' origins are no longer so compelling.
His prototypical study was on the Canadian government's creation of national myths in the 1980s and 1990s.
They are also drawn by national myths that have unusual power in Ethiopia.
It was an understandable choice in an age of burgeoning national myths.
A national myth is an inspiring narrative or anecdote about a nation's past.
A national myth may sometimes take the form of a national epic.
Will be interesting to see what happens to our national myth - as it certainly is - once they are gone.
The existence of such schools is today believed by most Greek scholars to be a national myth.
Now women will care more for their children and their home than national myths.
The Civil War is a national myth, certainly, from which black culture has been denied a role.