mythology

Its scientific name follows the same idea: in Greek mythology the aegis was a protective shield.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Early in the process, she insisted that the Valkyries, named for the female battlefield figures of Norse mythology, choose colors that weren’t the Warriors’ blue and gold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

The producer is hanging on a recent morning at Sound City, which looms in rock mythology as the place where Tom Petty made “Damn the Torpedoes” and Nirvana cut “Nevermind.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Earlier this week, the prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and literature were announced in Stockholm, with the latter going to Canadian poet Anne Carson on Thursday for her modern twists on Greek mythology and antiquity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

“No, she’s not,” I sign back, wide-eyed as I watch my grandmother attacking a folk hero from Ghanaian mythology.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Set partly in Eatonville, one of the country’s first incorporated all-black towns, the novel is rich in regional idioms and mythologies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

It’s there in our rituals and mythologies, our cravings and holidays.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025

“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

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