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The world's first explanation for everything, written by people who had never seen a lab coat.
means A traditional body of stories a culture tells to explain its gods, origins, and the way the world works.
from From Greek 'mythologia,' itself built from 'mythos' (story, speech, something said) plus 'logia' (the study or telling of). So at root it just means 'the telling of stories' — the Greeks used it for the tales of gods and heroes passed down before anyone drew a line between history, religion, and fiction. The word entered English through Latin and French, arriving around the late Middle Ages as a term for the organized study of these ancient tales.
- not just greek
- Every culture built one, independently, everywhere
- science's ancestor
- Thunder gods preceded, not replaced, actual physics
- still expanding
- Superhero universes are mythology with better marketing
- word trap
- Calling something a myth implies false, originally meant sacred