Adjective
Pertaining to, or inquiring into, causes; aetiological.
Source: Webster's dictionaryetiological agent Source: Internet
An etiological myth is a myth intended to explain a name or create a mythic history for a place or family. Source: Internet
There was some quarreling between Neisser and Hansen, Hansen as discoverer of the bacillus and Neisser as identifier of it as the etiological agent. Source: Internet
This seems also implicated in the epic of the hieros gamos or sacred marriage of Enki and Ninhursag (above), which seems an etiological myth of the fertilisation of the dry ground by the coming of irrigation water (from Sumerian a, ab, water or semen). Source: Internet
This episode, which is not known from Egyptian sources, gives an etiological explanation for a cult of Isis and Osiris that existed in Byblos in Plutarch's time and possibly as early as the New Kingdom. Source: Internet
Mythology main An etiological myth, or origin myth, is a myth intended to explain the origins of cult practices, natural phenomena, proper names and the like. Source: Internet