MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its …

Ambrose Bierce
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.148, 谷月社
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MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later. ✨ Ambrose Bierce (2016). The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World, p.148, 谷月社

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