(n.) The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.
(n.) A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.
Example Sentences:
(1) This component of a more comprehensive study of Houdini focuses on the unusual reification of his family romance fantasies, their endurance well beyond the usual boundaries in time, their kinship with mythological themes, and their infusion with the ambivalence that is often addressed toward the true parents.
(2) The latter is something of a legend in Bowie mythology and rumoured to be the subject of his song Never Let Me Down .
(3) This mythology, embodied over those decades in the Horatio Alger stories consumed particularly by upwardly mobile young men and in the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", consistently held out that American promise by equating hard work (along with other good Puritan values such as delayed gratification, temperance, saving and self-reliance) with economic success.
(4) A sample of coitally experienced college females was utilized to explore the adequacy of several related beliefs that constitute the cultural mythology of female sexual initiation in American society and to identify possible correlates of the subjective experience of pain during women's first intercourse.
(5) Mythology, creativity, innovative planning, and systems theory are used to bring together two systems to form a new whole called M-I-D-D-L-E G-R-O-U-N-D.
(6) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
(7) In her composition Land , the rock poet, who lived with Mapplethorpe at the Chelsea Hotel when they were in their 20s, creates a mythology that mirrors his leather fantasies.
(8) Paterson is steeped in the mythologies of the anti-environment movement.
(9) A brief review of the significance of the hand in the mythology, folklore, and religion of Ireland from ancient times is presented.
(10) The sexual abuse of women today is analyzed alongside the mythology of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
(11) In our past, we have both Venus and the crucifix, the Bible and Nordic mythology, which we remember with Christmas trees, or with the many festivals of St Lucy, St Nicolas and Santa Claus.
(12) Amazon may share its name with mythology's greatest female warriors, but the world's largest online retailer employs just 18 women among its 120 most senior managers, and none of them report directly to the boss.
(13) In the beginning, then, this mythology goes, the biologist was in the middle of the ocean, "surrounded by venomous sea serpents", preparing to meet his genome.
(14) She’s performed her poems in bookshops, theatres, prisons, universities, music festivals and schools, where teachers have used her work to introduce their students to Greek mythology.
(15) The paperwork was lost for ever when the town fell and, like so much else in Gbadolite, that moment in the sun is fading into mythology.
(16) It is used to marginalise and persecute independent voices, dumb down debate, and support the mythological notion of a Russia alone and besieged in a hostile world.
(17) For years the so-called White Walkers, a zombie race of wispy-haired, dead-horse-riding weirdos (think: Vince Cable 50 years dead and taller) were presumed mythological or extinct.
(18) Australia has been gripped by Anzac mythology since the late 1980s.
(19) "I do not like the ideological interpretations, this kind of Pope Francis mythology," he said.
(20) Not insignificantly, rejection of science over religious mythology is distinctly partisan: 48% of Republicans, versus 27% of Democrats, "just say no" to Darwin.
Vishnu
Definition:
(n.) A divinity of the modern Hindu trimurti, or trinity. He is regarded as the preserver, while Brahma is the creator, and Siva the destroyer of the creation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Vishnu Tatikonda, a 33-year-old electrician from Karimnagar district in the central Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, said he paid 65,000 INR (£645) to an agent in India for a visa, tickets and a placement with a subcontractor for a major construction firm in Qatar who would pay him a monthly salary of 1,200 QAR (£205).
(2) "The upside surprise in China's manufacturing PMI is welcome, and should help quell excessive fears of a 'hard landing' in China ," said Vishnu Varathan, an economist with Mizuho in Singapore.
(3) These results indicate that Vishnu promotes increased cleavage rates of embryos in vitro.
(4) Vishnu Sharma, the president of the Indian Workers' Association, Southall, said in a statement that "if anyone would have liked to see the police state in total operation he should have been in Southall today."
(5) We're working closely with local authorities to address the situation," Google's head of communications for Indonesia , Vishnu Mahmud said in a statement to the AFP.
(6) Cells were cultured in various concentrations of three different amphipathic peptides (SB-37, Shiva-1, and Vishnu), and enhanced proliferation was determined by uptake of 3H-thymidine with treated cells compared with control cultures.
(7) Statistical analysis revealed that culture in all three levels of Vishnu significantly accelerated in vitro growth of these stages of preimplantation embryos compared with controls.
(8) The suggestions received by the panel in the past few months have ranged from the outlandish – a London Eye-like installation called the Sudarshan Chakra, the spinning disc of death wielded by the god Vishnu – to the everyday: most people asked for parks and promenades and water transport.
(9) They were Michael Arnold, 59; Sylvia Frasier, 53; Kathy Gaarde, 62; John Roger Johnson, 73; Frank Kohler, 50; Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46; and Vishnu Pandit, 61.
(10) The primary study consisted of 263 four-cell- to eight-cell-stage mouse embryos from naturally bred mice and incubated in Whitten's medium containing 0.2, 1, or 10 microM of the amino terminus of an amphipathic cecropin B analog (Vishnu) or in Whitten's medium alone.
(11) Mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of Trabala vishnu Lef.
(12) Villagers frequently stumble across finds, recently some bronze, copper and sandstone statues of Hindu gods Vishnu, Shiva and Lakshmi.
(13) The crown alleges that he, Zac King, 21, Vishnu Wood, 23, Jack Locke, 18, and Colin Goff, 24, took part in violent disorder which engulfed parts of central London on a day when a minority of participants in a 10,000-strong protest clashed with police.
(14) The curious thing is that the very people who would indulge in such gold-medal winning bouts of sneering are also the ones who would venerate the culinary culture of the Dordogne or Burgundy; who would build a shrine to the books of Elizabeth David , complete with candles and incense, as if she were Jesus, Buddha and Vishnu rolled into one.