Mythology

Noun

 * 1)  The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
 * 2)  A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.
 * 3) * 2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ISBN 978-1-57181-187-5, page x:
 * This program to distinguish Austria from Germany was important to building a new Austria, but it also indirectly contributed to victim mythology by implying that participation in the Nazi war of conquest was antithetical to Austrian identity.
 * 1)  Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.
 * 2) * 2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying . . ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), ISBN 978-1-57958-060-5, page 198:
 * This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously.
 * 1)  The systematic collection and study of myths.

Derived terms

 * mythological
 * mythologist

Thesaurus
Marchen, Mishnah, Spiritus Mundi, Sunna, Talmud, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, ancient wisdom, apologue, archetypal myth, archetypal pattern, bedtime story, common law, custom, detective story, fable, fabliau, fairy lore, fairy tale, fairyism, fantasy, fiction, folk motif, folk story, folklore, folktale, gest, ghost story, horse opera, immemorial usage, legend, lore, love story, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythical lore, mythicism, mythos, nursery tale, parable, racial memory, romance, science fiction, shocker, space fiction, space opera, stories, suspense story, thriller, tradition, traditionalism, traditionality, whodunit, work of fiction

Pronunciation
my·tho·lo·gy

Etymology
First attested in English in 1412. From mythologie: <  mythologia: <  μυθολογία: μυθολογέω: < μυθολόγος: < μῦθος: + λέγω:.

Translations

 * Azeri: mifologiya
 * Basque:
 * Chinese: 神话 (shénhuà)
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 * Japanese: 神話 (shinwá)
 * Korean: 신화 (sinhwa)
 * Latin: mythologia
 * Maltese: mitoloġija
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: mitologie
 * Scots: meethologie
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 * Croatian:
 * Korean: 전설 (jeonseol)


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 * Alsatian: Mythologie
 * Azeri: mifologiya
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 * Bulgarian: митология (mitologija)
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 神话 (shénhuà)
 * Croatian:
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 * Estonian: mütoloogia
 * Finnish:
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 * Hebrew: מיתולוגיה (mitologia)
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 神話 (shinwá)
 * Korean: 신화학 (sinhwahak)
 * Latin: mythologia
 * Luxembourgish: Mythologie
 * Maltese: mitoloġija
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, colecție mitologică
 * Russian:
 * Scots: meethologie
 * Serbian: митологија/mitologija
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 * Swahili: mitholojia
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 * Ukrainian:
 * Walloon: Mitolodjeye
 * Welsh: mytholeg