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The study of myths
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mythology
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Mythology is a collection of myths, or the study of them. Mythology or Mythologies may also refer to: Mythology (fiction) or canon, the official notion of the overarching plot of a media franchise Mythology (comic book) , an Indian comic book created by ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "exposition of myths," from Middle French mythologie and directly from Late Latin mythologia , from Greek mythologia "legendary lore, a telling of mythic legends; a legend, story, tale," from mythos "myth" (of unknown origin) + -logy "study." ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mythology \My*thol"o*gy\, n.; pl. Mythologies . [F. mythologie, L. mythologia, Gr. myqologi`a; my^qos, fable, myth + lo`gos speech, discourse.] The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths. A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context countable and uncountable English) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deity, ancestors and heroes.
Usage examples of mythology.
Mythology is the deceptive substitute for this, employed when we arbitrarily project forms of our present experience into the unknown futurity, and then hold the resultant fancies as a rigid belief, or regard them as actual knowledge.
Department of Classical Mythology, your stimulating requirement from us of term papers on The Story of Your Life Thus Far, et cetera, all suggest that we are, if not a literate society, at least a society to which reading and writing are not unknown.
Between the pillars are more tall accordion screens, painted by Chib during his Amerind mythology phase.
Asia and America, the most striking is that offered by the Mexican mythology in the cosmogonical fiction of the periodical destructions and regenerations of the universe.
Greek and Lithuanian household mythology the dragon or drake has become an ogre, a gigantic man with few of the dracontine attributes remaining.
Stilton, pondering as I savour it the baroque eclecticism of his mythology.
Every one really educated in science and philosophy, and familiar with the physiological conditions and literary history of mythology in the other nations of the world, will plainly perceive the intrinsic fancifulness and falsity of the belief, at the same time that he easily accounts for its rise and prevalence.
The superior manner in which Clementine had applied the story of Hebe convinced me not only that she had a profound knowledge of mythology, but also that she had a keen and far-reaching intellect.
This was not the case, but the empress understood Latin and was familiar with mythology, and if she had looked on it in the light I have mentioned I should have been undone.
The habits of justifying the popular mythology against the invectives of an implacable enemy, produced in their minds some sentiments of faith and reverence for a system which they had been accustomed to consider with the most careless levity.
Then the time coordinate becomes cyclic, as in Hindu mythology, where Brahma recreates the universe every kalpa, a period of 4.
In Eastern mythology the Kundalini is likened to the image of a serpent coiled up below the base of the spine.
Love only laughs when two are present, and thus it is that the ancient mythology tells no story of the loves of the Graces, who were always together.
Within that city mught lie explanations for all the mythologies of mankind.
The figure of Baldr is unique in Norse mythology and an enigma which scholars have not yet solved.