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Mythologist

Mythologist \My*thol"o*gist\, n. [Cf. F. mythologiste.] One versed in, or who writes on, mythology or myths.

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mythologist

n. A person who studies mythology

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mythologist

n. an expert on mythology

Usage examples of "mythologist".

This repetition of the concept through different forms is precious to the mythologist, it allows him to decipher the myth: it is the insistence of a kind of behaviour which reveals its intention.

This instability forces the mythologist to use a terminology adapted to it, and about which I should now like to say a word, because it often is a cause for irony: I mean neologism.

And if he reads it using his powers of reflection, like the mythologist, does it matter which alibi is presented?

I must, as a conclusion, say a few words about the mythologist himself.

Yet one can predict for the mythologist, if there ever is one, a few difficulties, in feeling if not in method.

This harmony justifies the mythologist but does not fulfil him: his status still remains basically one of being excluded.

Justified by the political dimension, the mythologist is still at a distance from it.

Also, the mythologist cuts himself off from all the myth-consumers, and this is no small matter.

But when a myth reaches the entire community, it is from the latter that the mythologist must become estranged if he wants to liberate the myth.

One must even go further: in a sense, the mythologist is excluded from this history in the name of which he professes to act.

The mythologist is not even in a Moses-like situation: he cannot see the Promised Land.

Suddenly, he wished to heaven he had been quick enough to run the wormy mythologist through with his dress sword.

Do you want them to wipe your mind clear and find you are no longer a mythologist and know nothing about any legends whatever?

Ramsbottom, the zodiacal mythologist, told him that he had done well to withdraw from the region of Uranus or Brahma, the Maker, to that of Saturn or Veeshnu, the Preserver, before he fell under the eye of Jupiter or Seva, the Destroyer, who might have struck him down at a blow.

The quote was from Joseph Campbell, the American mythologist and folklorist who had taught at Harvard when Pierce was a student there.