mythos

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Clever, literary and expansive, “Arachnomania” concludes by returning us to mythos.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Aside from the horse, the wolf is probably the four-legged animal most associated with the mixed American mythos of rugged independence and family values.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

It’s got its own mythos: You timed your restroom and snack breaks for those commercials.

From Salon • May 26, 2025

That Darth Vader revelation altered the drama from political animosity to Oedipal mythos.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025

Hinduism had started off as a polytheistic religion, a set of tales about warrior gods and battles similar in many ways to the Greek mythos.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife