Definition of Mythology

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Definition of Mythology
	Mythology The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths. A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks. Related Definitions: As, Body, Collective, Describe, Heathen, Mythology, Of, On, People, Science, The, Treatise, Which

Mythology Quotations

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
Thomas Jefferson

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan Sontag

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Tennessee Williams

You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
Jack Kevorkian

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Umberto Eco

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
Robert Redford

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.
Anne Rice

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.
Anne Rice

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
Martin Scorsese

Mythology Translations

mythology in Dutch is mythologie
mythology in French is mythologie
mythology in Swedish is mytologi

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