mythology
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5.5
- noun
- /mɪˈθɑlədʒi/
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mitología
- In Greek mythology, Zeus is known as the king of the gods.
- Greek mythology
- Greco-Roman mythology
- Norse mythology
I'm pretty sure in Egypt there's like Egyptian mythology going on.
- I'm pretty sure in Egypt there's like Egyptian mythology going on.
- I love mythology, so I'm big into that.
- Every strain of mythology has a Lord of Lords, the top God.
- He says he likes creating content around a cultural mythology.
- She she loves building worlds, she loves lore, she loves mythology.
- Like Madeline Miller makes great retelling of myths or mythology, whatever.
- Perhaps my favorite spills over from Hindu traditions into West African mythology, and it's the story of Anansi.
- In Egyptian mythology, Babylonian mythology, there are, you know, gods who do very bad things.
- And so that means that for the Japanese primates, monkeys were part of their mythology and of their stories.
- Anyway, it is set in the Kingdom of Kaikaiya, and it looks like it's just going to be a lot of mythology.
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So these names come from mythology, in this case Egyptian mythology.
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The border land of South Armagh, an area of Ireland steeped in Celtic mythology.
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Peter and his friends are all very keen on ancient mythology.
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Because I was raised without religion but I did read tons of mythology and stories and things from around the world.
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And so that means that for the Japanese primates, monkeys were part of their mythology and of their stories.
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There are certain mythologies that are present in all cultures over all time.
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In Native American mythology The wolf was known as the night listener.
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For some years, I have been writing a book about the mythology of trickster figures like Coyote.
Fiction book (1996) -
In Slavic mythology, the Kikimora is a kind of spirit to those with darkness in their hearts.
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We'd been studying Greek mythology in school, and Raymond had gotten stuck on those nymphs.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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6.1
Knowledge and stories that people pass down over generations
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4.9
Traditional stories, customs, and beliefs people pass down through generations
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8.1
A set of old stories that explain a group's beliefs and how it began
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Traditional stories people tell to explain past events or cultural beliefs, often not true
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Etymology
Mythology can also mean the collection of a culture's stories. It comes from Greek mythos 'story' (related to the English word myth) and logos 'word', so mythology is the set of traditional tales people tell to explain nature and the past.