Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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2. A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe
the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the
Greeks.
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its
origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished
from the true accounts which it invents later.