Word Finder - mythos

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Anything transmitted by word of mouth, such as a fable, legend, narrative, story, or tale (especially a poetic tale).

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A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group; a myth, a mythology.

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(by extension) A set of assumptions or beliefs about something.

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A recurring theme; a motif.

Chamber of Secrets can be seen as the first of Rowling's attempts to create a consistent, coherent mythos for Harry Potter.

By which I do not mean mythical as exaggerations or perversions of truth, but belonging to the Egyptian Mythos.

However, like everything in the abduction mythos, it does have American characteristics.

By which I do not mean mythical as exaggerations or perversions of truth, but belonging to the Egyptian mythos.

One of the most enduring artifacts of the Pokemon mythos are the action figures depicting some of children's favorite Pokemon trainers, villains, and cuddly Pokemon themselves.

The long-running series continued a legacy of the Superman mythos, beginning with Jerry Siegal and Joe Schuster in 1938.

When first released, it opened to mixed reviews, yet is now commonly thought to be the most mature work of the six-movie series, and a more fully-formed reflection of Lucas' overarching mythos.

That said, plenty of fans were dismayed by the introduction of 'midichlorians' into the Star Wars mythos.

The Lord of the Rings mythos is no exception.

While the two groups both originated on the planet Cybertron, the Transformer mythos explains that the Autobots originated from a slave robot line, and they are the ones who discovered the power to transform first.

In 2009, Wonder Woman was released as an animated feature film that focused on the "Gods and Mortals" arc of storyline as told by George Perez in his reboot of the Wonder Woman mythos.

In the George Perez revamp of the Wonder Woman mythos, Circe became one of Diana's most dangerous and formidable foes.

The game combines all of the intricacies of the mobster mythos - families, big bosses, wars, missions - with a game play that is easy enough to occupy both the casual user and the game addict.

A History and Mythos of the Knights Templar includes excellent articles on Templar history, legacy and the mystery surrounding them.

His subsequent works were dissertations on the origin of alphabetical writing (Die Erfindung der Buchstabenschrift, 1801), on the antiquity of the Codex Vaticanus (1810), and on ancient mythology (Ober den Mythos der alten Volker, 1812); a new interpretation of the Song of Solomon (Das hohe Lied in einer noch unversuchten Deutung, 1813), to the effect that the lover represents King Hezekiah, while by his beloved is intended the remnant left in Israel after the deportation of the ten tribes; and treatises on the indissoluble character of the matrimonial bond (De conjugii christiani vinculo indissolubili commentatio exegetica, 1816) and on the Alexandrian version of the Pentateuch (1818).

Others attach chief importance to the slaying of Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus) by Orestes at Delphi; according to Radermacher (Das Jenseits im Mythos der Hellenen, 1903), Orestes is an hypostasis of Apollo, Pyrrhus the principle of evil, which is overcome by the god; on the other hand, Usener (Archiv fur Religionswesen, vii., 1899, 334) takes Orestes for a god of winter and the underworld, a double of the Phocian Dionysus the "mountain" god (among the Ionians a summer-god, but in this case corresponding to Dionysus j Xavaiyis), who subdues Pyrrhus "the light," the double of Apollo, the whole being a form of the well-known myths of the expulsion of summer by winter.

It is not new, because it represents the ancient mythos under an intended disguise.

So clearly St. Bride in the Hebridean mythos was named Mary.

The number 7 is also an all-important factor in the lunar mythos, with its twenty-eight days to the month.

It is actually easier to trace the development of the UFO mythos to the British airship scare of 1912-13.

Created by one person who goes by the name "pixel", Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogotari) is a very deep game with a heart-tugging story steeped in a made-up mythos, gorgeous music, and very rewarding gameplay.