Assertion: myth | /r/CapableOf | provide justification
Facets:
value: for those rituals
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Like William Smith, the anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski argued in his essay Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926) that myths function as fictitious accounts of the origin of rituals, thereby providing a justification for those rituals: myth "gives rituals a hoary past and thereby sanctions them."