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n. A body or collection of myths belonging to a people and addressing their origin, history, deities, ancestors, and heroes.

n. A body of myths associated with an event, individual, or institution: "A new mythology, essential to the . . . American funeral rite, has grown up” ( Jessica Mitford).

n. The field of scholarship dealing with the systematic collection and study of myths.

n. The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.

n. A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.

n. Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.

n. The systematic collection and study of myths.

n. The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.

n. A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people.

n. The science of myths; the science which investigates myths with a view to their interpretation and to discover the degree of relationship existing between the myths of different peoples; also, the description or history of myths.

n. A system of myths or fables in which are embodied the convictions of a people in regard to their origin, divinities, heroes, founders, etc. See myth.

n. myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person

n. the study of myths

"They fear the blue, which, in mythology, is the color of purity and holiness."

social anthropology    cultural anthropology   

mythological    mythologist   

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myth    folklore    lore    theology    superstition    antiquity    geography    metaphysics    symbolism    poetry