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"Origin myth" as a book category encompasses narratives that explain beginnings—of the world, a people, a culture, a ritual, a creature, or a fundamental phenomenon—using mythic, allegorical, or symbolic storytelling. These books may retell traditional creation myths or invent entirely new cosmogonies, and they typically feature archetypal figures (gods, tricksters, culture-heroes), etiological episodes that show how things came to be, elemental settings, and rich, often lyrical language. The genre spans fantasy, speculative and literary fiction as well as reworked folklore and mythopoeia, and it is frequently concerned with identity, belonging, moral origins, and the forces that shape societies or the natural world. Overall, origin myth books foreground explanation and meaning over realistic causality, inviting readers into stories that are both worldbuilding and cultural revelation.

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