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mythology

[mi-thol-uh-jee] / mɪˈθɒl ə dʒi /


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"I had to go all the way to Japanese Shinto mythology to find it", he said.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

"The joy, the soul, the humor, the music, the poetry, the mythology, original time, place, and space," the Oscar-winning actor told AFP when asked why he had chosen the indie film for his comeback.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell first wrote the numbers for “Hadestown,” a folk musical based on Greek mythology, in 2006.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

The longtime CIA operative had exfiltrated the families of spies from the most repressive of Middle Eastern regimes and tattooed the word “ARGONAUT,” an homage to seafaring heroes from Greek mythology, across his right forearm.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 19, 2026

She had no mythology that resonated beyond the hero origin story.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

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

Fisher: Both of these shows have very developed worlds and mythologies, but every effect has been designed to serve the story, it’s not the story having to serve the effect.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 22, 2025

America is a nation at war with its mythologies.

From Salon Jan. 26, 2025

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




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