mythologies

plural of mythology
as in folklores
the body of customs, beliefs, stories, and sayings associated with a people, thing, or place Ares is the god of war in Greek mythology

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Recent Examples of mythologies Rojas moves from Colombian history to mythologies, from family stories to her own life. Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025 Drawing inspiration from Norse and other mythologies, the trees of Middle-earth in the Lord of the Rings series are sacred beings, whose treatment stands as a moral litmus test. Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025 With its careful manipulation of microhistorical fragments, A Real Christmas summons the neocolonial mythologies of the United States in the 1950s through its news media, uncovering traces of alternate voices and narrative lacunae. Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025 Quite often a superhero such as Superman would get double exposure on the big screen and on TV, but under two different mythologies (read CW’s 2001-2017 series Smallville and Zach Snyder’s 2013 movie Man of Steel). Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 24 Feb. 2025 In silk is science and history, mythologies and futures. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024 Cornell’s story is chilling in its clarity and punctuated with reminders of the hypocrisies at work in popular mythologies about the border. Longreads, 22 Nov. 2024 The mythologies of the moon are as varied as the cultures that create them. Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2024 Entire mythologies are woven around the transformative power of leaders, from Steve Jobs' ‘reality distortion field’ at Apple, to the (somewhat-tarnished) cold-fusion miracle of Jack Welch's constant profits at GE. Dave Winsborough, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
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  • Fiction features include Meyar Roumi’s 2023 feature The Return, about a Syrian historian living in exile in Marseilles, who travels to Damascus to retrieve the remains of his younger brother, who was shot as freedom fighter, and move them to the north in accordance with ancestral traditions.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The son of Jewish television-news producer Sy Kravitz and Black actress Roxie Roker, who was of Bahamian descent, Kravitz grew up with both Christian and Jewish traditions.
    Jazmine Hughes, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2025
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  • Even long-standing legends say Cleopatra famously bathed in milk water to soften her skin into more of a baby’s face.
    Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 8 Oct. 2025
  • By the time the ball clanked off the left-field foul pole and crashed back to earth, Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, DiMaggio, Berra and the other legends had done their jobs for this franchise once again.
    Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025

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