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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 1.6 [wn]:
mythology
n 1: myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a
culture or institution or person
2: the study of myths
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
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
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