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Myth is a text adventure game by Magnetic Scrolls released in . This game was only released in limited numbers to members of the Official Secrets adventuring club. It is shorter than other Magnetic Scrolls adventures.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Myth \Myth\ (m[i^]th), n. [Written also mythe .] [Gr. my^qos myth, fable, tale, talk, speech: cf. F. mythe.] A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces ...
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n. 1 A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, ...
Usage examples of myth.
A Corporal First might prove to have more combat acumen than a stately aristocrat from one of the old famifies--and such could not be permitted since it undermined the myth of aristocratic invincibility.
Over a century after coca was taxed by the clergy, we still find reports of its satanic influences, and it is just such reports that, blindly cited by later commentators, would help to propagate the myth of coca chewing as a dangerous, addictive habit - a myth that survives to this day.
Pauli and the Cavern 56 3 Up the Smoke 97 4 Beatles for Sale 144 5 Lennon and McCartney 184 6 Avant-Garde London 211 7 Making the Albums 268 8 Sergeant Pepper 293 9 The Walrus Was Paul 349 10 The Maharishi 396 11 Apple 431 12 The White Album 481 13 Let It Be 526 14 John 568 Afterword 597 Bibliography 618 The Beatles have become so surrounded by myth, fantasy and speculation that determining anything other than the basic facts of their lives has become virtually impossible.
But, lately, a lot of rumors have been spreading, especially an ancient beholder myth about the coming of the Cloakmaster.
They only know the beholder myth: that the coming of the Cloakmaster will herald the start of the Dark Times.
She had hoped to write a paper on biofeedback, autogenics, and the supernormal experience in myth.
These, Hresh thought, are the inhuman bowelless hjjks his people have always dreaded, the invulnerable and implacable insect-men of myth and fable and chronicle.
According to the most widely spread myth, Briareus and his brothers were called by Zeus to his assistance when the Titans were making war upon Olympus.
We will delve into the most ancient records, into the very myths of Dune, into the time of the Great Revolt, more commonly known as the Butlerian Jihad.
By his own childhood and experience, he had to know that those families were myths created by cinematographic poets and producers.
But to the cogitators, the only Cylons with whom one could have an actual conversation, Iblis was widely considered a myth.
In all these and similar legends, the bird is a relic of the cosmogonal myth which explained the origin of the world from the action of the winds, under the image of the bird, on the primeval ocean.
No religious or cosmogonic myth presents this character of universality.
Therefore in these myths, which are found over so many thousand square leagues, we cannot be in error in perceiving a reflex of their cosmogonical traditions already discussed, in which from the winds and the waters, represented here under their emblems of the bird and the dog, all animate life proceeded.
My research has filled me with respect for the logical thinking, high science, deep psychological insights, and vast cosmographical knowledge of the ancient geniuses who composed those myths, and who, I am now fully persuaded, descended from the same lost civilization that produced the map-makers, pyramid builders, navigators, astronomers and earth-measurers whose fingerprints we have been following across the continents and oceans of the earth.