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[jack]

My directories and files often have names that are meaningful to me, but possibly not so to anyone else, because they've grown holistically from slightly different origins, the way you can remember where in your house something lives even when no-one else can.

Stories on the (varied) theme of "How Fire Became" and "How the Kitten Became" reside together in the directory "HowTheBecame." That works, but isn't quite a sufficient name to refer to the series by to anyone else.

(The stories are different, but have very similar premises, and in some ways have similar feelings, so I group them together. They're inspired in different ways by Kipling's "How the Foo got its Bar" stories and Ted Hughes' "How the X became". They're fairy-tale like stories about God's early creation.)

What should they be called?

* "How The Something Became" stories?
* "How Fire Became" series?
* "Kiplingesque" stories?
* "Eden" stories?
* "Origin" stories?

Comments

[aldabra]

Genesis stories.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Could do...

[rochvelleth.livejournal.com]

I suppose 'Just So' is plagiarism ;)

The Origin Myths? Or Foundation Myths. Or maybe Folk Myths (I just like that because they're the same kind of thing as folk etymology, not because I was calling them folk tales, which I suppose they're not except that they're sort of fake folk tales, IYSWIM). :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. Well, no, it admits the plagiarism I'm already making. I guess that *does* work. I don't know why it wasn't on the list. But it sounds like I'm *just* ripping off Kipling. Whereas in fact I'm ripping off lots of other people as well :)

I think "origin myths" is closest -- it doesn't describe a specific source, and "Myth" captures the feel of them. Fake Folk Tales is the whole genre, I sort of like :)