#founding myth

[trash-panda-kitty]

The White House wants you to believe the founders built a Christian nation.

The founders were a lot of things.

Subtle was not one of them.

The Christian founding myth gets awkward fast when it runs face-first into

Jefferson

Madison

and the Constitution.

The White House Wants to Pretend the Founders Built a Christian Nation Like Jefferson Didn’t Call Forced Religion “Sinful and Tyrannical”

The paper trail gives us Madison, Jefferson, no religious tests, and a Constitution that refused to establish a religion.

[notanothernogoodblog]

April 21 marks the traditional founding date of Rome in 753 BC, a day celebrated today as Natale di Roma. According to its founding myth, depicted in the Capitoline Wolf sculpture, the twin brothers Romulus and Remus—sons of the god Mars—were abandoned as infants to prevent them from claiming their rightful throne. They were rescued and suckled by a she-wolf until they were found by a shepherd. Upon reaching adulthood, the brothers returned to the site of their rescue to build a city. After a fatal dispute over its location and leadership, Romulus killed Remus, becoming the first king and namesake of Rome.

The legacy of this "Eternal City" is the bedrock of Western civilization. Rome’s impact is visible in the Latin language, which birthed the Romance languages and heavily influenced English, and in the Roman legal system, which established concepts like "innocent until proven guilty." Their architectural and engineering feats—such as aqueducts, concrete, and the arch—allowed for the first true mega-cities. Furthermore, the Roman model of a republic with a system of checks and balances served as the primary blueprint for modern Western democracies, including that of the United States.

[greekmythcomix]

Hello Aeneas didn’t found Rome, he founded the city (Lavinium) that founded the city (Alba Longa) that founded Rome (by Remus & Romulus).

If like wannabe world overlords you like to learn your mythological founding stories without having to read the actual epic poem, or you just want a fun refresher, here’s one to the tune of The Fresh Prince (because everyone knows The Fresh Prince):

Karaoke time! https://youtu.be/z0VQIRZ9xSk

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air (Karaoke Version)

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(I made this nine years ago for my Year 9s [13-14yo] and yes I did perform it in class. Posted now because I hate the world sometimes:)

[lostgoonie1980]

182. Il primo re (Il primo re / Romulus & Remus: The First King, 2019), dir. Matteo Rovere

[sbnkalny]

WHY DO YOU HAVE AN OBSESSION WITH MILK

A common obsession with eschatology And Numidiumism, and perpetuated by big mood

[economicsresearch]

page 376 left - casting its rays of black light upon the earth, the dot, although small, became the source of energy for all life.

[sbnkalny]

Then the Empire rose to power -- the "founding myth", if you will.

[scottjpearson]

Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table

Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table This #classic harkens the reader back to the mythic romance of chivalry, when knights maintained order and honor in the world. #amReading #bookReview #ScottsBookReview

King Arthur’s mythic Round Table – with Queen Gwynevere, Sir Launcelot, and the famous sword Excalibur – resounds through England’s history. They might be fable, or they might have a historical root. Either way, they make for a good telling and national myth. Sir Thomas Malory recorded these tales in book form in the late fifteenth century, and Keith Baines adapted these for modern languages in…

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