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mythology

[mi-thol-uh-jee] / mɪˈθɒl ə dʒi /


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“The fateful agency of women,” she writes, “and their power over life and death” is pervasive throughout the culture’s mythology.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

In Greek mythology, the volcano was associated with the burial of the giants Typhon and Enceladus after they were defeated by the Olympian gods.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

The PlayStation 4 reboot of the series shifted it towards a focus on Norse mythology.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Olsen: Because you mentioned a man who’s 400 years old, the mythology of the show gets more complicated as it goes along, right up until the very last episode.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

I adore mythology, especially the Greek and Roman gods.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

The superhero franchises just go on and on, and if you don’t know the histories or mythologies or inside jokes, well, you’re simply not a member of the sect.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

“The more you look at her work, the more you see personal histories, mythologies, cultures and media, all interwoven into a totality of human experience,” says Michael Govan, chief executive and director of LACMA.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2024

Timothée Chalamet, for example, is hugely popular - but his most recent hits have been Dune and Wonka, which had their own existing fanbases and mythologies.

From BBC May 24, 2024

It features more than one hundred objects that, as the exhibition description puts it, “mine the iconographies and mythologies embedded in everyday consumer culture.”

From New York Times May 3, 2024

He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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