Mythology

thumb|upright=1.2|Ballads of bravery (1877) part of Matter of Britain|Arthurian mythology

thumb|Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, woodcut print from the Apocalypse of [[Albrecht Dürer (1497–1498)]] Eschatology (; ) concerns expectations of the end of present age, human history, or the world itself. The end of the world or end times is predicted by several world religions (both Abrahamic and Indian), which teach that negative world events will reach a climax. Belief that the end of the world is imminent is known as apocalypticism, and over time has been held both by members of mainstream religions and by doomsday cults. In the context of mysticism, the term refers metaphorically to t

thumb|Roman Emperor|Emperor [[Marcus Aurelius shows clemency to the vanquished after his success against tribes (Capitoline Museum in Rome)]]

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upright=1.3|thumb|The Resurrection, painting by Andrea Mantegna, 1457–1459 thumb|A depiction of a Phoenix (mythology)|Phoenix, a figure of revival thumb|Plaque depicting saints rising from the dead Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. This is quite different from reincarnation, a process involving a person or deity returning to life in a different body. The disappearance of a body is another similar but distinct belief in some religions.

thumb|upright=1.35|16th century woodcut of a Divination|soothsayer delivering a prophecy to a king, deriving it from stars, fishes, and noises from the mountains

Etiology (; alternatively spelled aetiology or ætiology) is the study of causation or origination. The word is derived from the Greek word (), meaning "giving a reason for" (). More completely, etiology is the study of the causes, origins, or reasons behind the way that things are, or the way they function, or it can refer to the causes themselves. The word is commonly used in medicine (pertaining to causes of disease or illness) and in philosophy, but also in physics, biology, psychology, political science, geography, cosmology, spatial analysis and theology in reference to the causes or orig

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In the fields of philosophy and mythography, euhemerism () is an approach to the interpretation of mythology in which mythological accounts are presumed to have originated from real historical events or personages. Euhemerism supposes that historical accounts become myths as they are exaggerated in the retelling, accumulating elaborations and alterations that reflect cultural mores. It was named after the Greek mythographer Euhemerus, who lived in the late 4th century BC. In the more recent literature of myth, such as ''Bulfinch's Mythology'', euhemerism is termed the "historical theory" of my

Demythologization as a hermeneutic approach to religious texts seeks to separate or recover cosmological, sociological and historic claims from philosophical, ethical and theological teachings. Mostly applied to biblical texts, demythologization often overlaps with philology, biblical criticism and form criticism. The term demythologization (in German: Entmythologisierung) was introduced by Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976) in existential context, but the concept has earlier precedents.

Pseudo-mythology ( or kabinetnaya mifologiya, "office mythology", literally "cabinet mythology") are myths and deities which are not properly attested in traditional mythology and folklore or their existence is doubtful or disproved. It may be created by researchers who liberally interpret scarce sources.

Archaeomythology refers to the study of archaeology through the discipline of mythology. It is an approach developed by Marija Gimbutas and mainly applied to Eastern European countries. Commenting in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion, Tõnno Jonuks wrote "Despite stressing the importance of archaeology and using its sources to a greater extent than any other school in the Baltic countries, studies of archaeomythology are still based upon folklore and archaeology has only been used selectively. The greater part of archaeological material which could not be reconciled

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overview of stories involving turning people into stone

serpent that only appears in myths and legends

animal skin, especially fawn-skin, worn as a garment, associasted with the cult of Dionysos

sacred tree in Zoroastrian legend

assembly of deities over which a higher-level god presides

body of myths of Oceanian mythology

recognised group of classical scholars, mostly in Cambridge, England

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