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"Foundation myths" is a category for books that center on origin stories—the legends, creation tales, and founding narratives that explain how a people, place, institution, or world came to be. These works range from retellings and reimaginings of traditional myths and local founding legends to historical and fictional accounts that invent new origin narratives for cities, nations, religions, families, or even corporate or planetary institutions. Common themes include identity, legitimacy, memory, and the use of story to justify power or bind communities; the books may be scholarly analyses of myth and folklore, literary retellings, or speculative world‑building in fantasy and historical fiction. In short, the category brings together texts that explore and interrogate the stories societies tell about their beginnings and the meanings those stories carry.

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