English > mythology: 2 senses > noun 1, group| Meaning | myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person. |
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| Category of | Anglo-Saxon deity | (Anglo-Saxon mythology) a deity worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons |
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| Annwfn, Annwn | (Welsh mythology) the other world |
| Arjuna | (Hindu mythology) the warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature of being and of God and how humans can come to know God |
| Brunhild, Brunnhilde, Brynhild | A Valkyrie or a queen in the Nibelungenlied who loved the hero Siegfried |
| Nibelung | (German mythology) any of the race of dwarfs who possessed a treasure hoard that was stolen by Siegfried |
| Nibelung | (German mythology) a companion or follower of Siegfried |
| Siegfried | (German mythology) mythical German warrior hero of the Nibelungenlied who takes possession of the accursed treasure of the Nibelungs by slaying the dragon that guards / guards it and awakens Brynhild and is eventually killed |
| Teutonic deity | (German mythology) a deity worshipped by the ancient Teutons |
| Wayland, Wayland the Smith, Wieland | (European mythology) a supernatural smith and king of the elves |
| diffusion | The spread of social institutions (and myths and skills) from one society to another |
| mythology | The study of myths |
| thunderbird | (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning / lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird |
| Members | myth | A traditional story accepted as history |
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| Narrower | Norse mythology | The mythology of Scandinavia (shared in part by Britain and Germany) until the establishment of Christianity |
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| classical mythology | The system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together |
| Broader | collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage | Several things grouped together or considered as a whole |
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| Spanish | mitología |
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| Catalan | mitologia |
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| Adjectives | mythologic, mythological | based on or told of in traditional stories |
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| Nouns | mythologist | an expert on mythology |
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| Verbs | mythologize | make into a myth |
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