mythology
Other forms: mythologies
A mythology is a collection of myths or stories about a specific person, culture, religion, or any group with shared beliefs. Most people don’t consider mythology to be entirely true, but they still take it seriously.
A myth is a story about the olden days, often featuring supernatural characters, and a mythology is a bunch of myths that are related to each other. Greek mythology is filled with tales about relationships between gods and humans, usually with gods pulling pranks all the time. Christian mythology tells the story of God creating the Earth and everything after. Mythology can also mean the study of myths in an academic situation, like studying mythology at a university.
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myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or persontypes:classical mythologythe system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the GreeksNorse mythologythe mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment of ChristianityGreek mythologythe mythology of the ancient GreeksRoman mythologythe mythology of the ancient Romanstype of:accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collectionseveral things grouped together or considered as a whole
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the study of mythstype of:cultural anthropology, social anthropologythe branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society
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