Charter myth (n.) is a myth that justifies a society's rules, institutions or social order.
A Charter myth (n.) is a narrative that turns past events into present permission.
A Charter myth (n.) is used not only to explain phenomena but to justify social norms, institutions, and/or the status quo to benefit those in power.
Greek mythology (n.) is a set of stories in which the gods have every human flaw and none of the consequences.
Greek mythology (n.) explains the weather by giving it a grudge.
Mythology of modernization (n.) is the story, criticized by James Ferguson, that societies move steadily forward from tradition to modernity.
The Mythology of modernization (n.) is progress narrated by the people who own the cranes.
The Mythology of modernization (n.) is that the story of urban africa has for so long been narrated in terms of linear progressions and optimistic teleologies, so difficulties in the last two decades look like a slipping backwards.