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Definition of Mythus

1. myth [n MYTHI] - See also: myth

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mythus

mythologizes mythologizing mythology mythomania mythomaniac mythomaniacs mythomanias mythopeic mythopoeia mythopoeias

mythopoeic mythopoetic mythopoetical mythos myths mythus (current term) mythy Mytilene mytilid Mytilidae

mytiloid Mytilus Mytilus edulis myxameba myxamebae myxamebas myxamoeba myxamoebae myxamoebas myxedema

Literary usage of Mythus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Introduction to a Scientific System of Mythology by Karl Otfried Müller (1844)
"be more recent than Homer's world of gods, who were, for the most part, emancipated from nature.1 Very often the mythus is nothing else than a symbol ..."

2. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn. ..."

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