From one point of view they shadow out the great epic of the destinies of the human race; again, the universal solar myth claims a share in them; hoary traditions were brought into ex post facto connexion with them; or they served to commemorate simple meteorological and astronomical facts.
Darwinia reminds one of Conan Doyle's Lost World, another candidate for ex post facto elevation to Steamhood.
But this ex post facto argument is the sole proof of this view; and it is quite insufficient to prove the accusation.
An aetiological myth is one which is regarded as having been invented ex post facto to explain some fact, name or coincidence, the true account or origin of which has been forgotten.
