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- noun Plural form of
mythology .
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Once they give up their claim to the title "scientist," they as citizens have the same duty as all other citizens to ensure that the state (public school) does NOT teach religious origin mythologies as science.
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Once they give up their claim to the title "scientist," they as citizens have the same duty as all other citizens to ensure that the state (public school) does NOT teach religious origin mythologies as science.
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Bat in what are commonly called the mythologies of these nations, Apollo.
Poetics; Or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry ... George Dyer 1812
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A growing trend – they pull these pseudo-scientists from Creation Institutional Colleges that exist solely to debunk real science in the name of religious mythologies from the Bible (Noah’s Flood for instance), which conveniently align with most of the Republican Party’s greedy little plans to accumulate unnecessary wealth.
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I think that nowhere else in the mythologies are the Five Root-Races, the four past and the one existent, mentioned so clearly as here in
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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The Nightmare Before Christmas but with subtler undercurrents: a velveteen tunnel, an imprisoning mirror, plus coddling-then-frightening parental "others" recalling the mythologies of Cocteau's fantasy films and the Mother / Meat sequence of Bunuel's
New York Press 2009
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The previous 'mythologies' that you mentioned were serious religions in their own times (and still are to most people) and sometimes people took the stories in their religions as fact and not myth, as do some Christians today.
Sunday Discussion: An Overflow of Comic Book Movies?! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I've only recently even dared talk of other "mythologies" in the classroom, trying to distinguish the basis for each.
Late November doyle 2008
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They are more accurately described as mythologies that continue to shape our world in terms of black/white and victim/oppressor—even when these labels don’t apply.
Don’t Bring Home a White Boy KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN 2010
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Bolten, Hadley decry 'mythologies', insist administration wasn't arrogant
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