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Author: ArcadesSabboth

Mar 30th 2013 at 8:23:30 AM

I launched Mythology. In the Trope Repair Shop we agreed that Mythology needed a separate page as an index for the Mythology works pages. Those contain works of multiple genres (myth, legend, folktales, wisdom literature, theology, devotional hymns, etc.) that can't all be subsumed under Myth. So we agreed to separate them.

{{Mythology}} is more of a definition with an index (the definition would be shorter if we didn't feel the need for a whole paragraph to discourage the inevitable outrage at having TheBible listed there). Myth indexes a different set of works, and goes more into detail about the genre itself, how it is distinct from {{Legend}}, the types of Myths and their development over time.

Also, a myth is a single story and its adaptations -- for example, the Greek myth of Kronos eating his kids. A mythology is, for example, ''all'' of GreekMythology. It contains a large number of myths, plus many legends and so on.

Though I just did some edits to the two pages to differentiate them a little more clearly.