Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mythology"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mythology \My*thol"o*gy\, n.; pl. {Mythologies}. [F. mythologie,
L. mythologia, Gr. myqologi`a; my^qos, fable, myth + lo`gos
speech, discourse.]
1. The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.
2. A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe
the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the
Greeks.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mythology
n 1: myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a
culture or institution or person
2: the study of myths
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