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What is a mythos?

What is a mythos? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group.
  2. Anything delivered by word of mouth: a word, speech, conversation, or similar; a story, tale, or legend, especially a poetic tale.
  3. A tale, story, or narrative, usually verbally transmitted, or otherwise recorded into the written form from an alleged secondary source.
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Much of the traditional Arthurian mythos has simply been left out.
Had she only lived earlier in the century she might easily have become the centre of a mythos.
But for all of her comic relief, Blankenship became a tragic figure in the Mad Men mythos, dying silently at her desk.
To facilitate allusion to the braggadocio, or the extravagant in observation, the mythos of Iagoo is added to his vocabulary.
This mythos is still prevalent, though abused for the most atrocious purposes.
A really obvious example of this happened when the Romans invaded Greece, and ultimately adopted a modified version of the Greek mythos.

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