English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van mitologie verwys na 'n versameling mites, legendes, verhale en oortuigings wat met 'n bepaalde kulturele of godsdienstige tradisie geassosieer word. Dit behels dikwels die bonatuurlike, gode, helde en ander mitiese wesens. Hierdie verhale word tipies deur generasies oorgedra en word gebruik om die oorsprong van die wêreld, natuurlike verskynsels en menslike gedrag te verduidelik. Mites en mitologie kan ook simboliese of metaforiese betekenis hê en kan gebruik word om morele of etiese lesse te leer.

Sentence Examples

  1. It precedes the green and flowery spring, as mythology precedes regular poetry.
  2. There was no dragon, no beast of mythology flying above the battling armies.
  3. There we worked, revising mythology, rounding a fable here and there, and building castles in the air for which earth offered no worthy foundation.
  4. Fae mythology held that their magic had been sundered at the moment the first human told the first lie.
  5. Did you know that in Norse mythology, Hilde is queen of Hell?
  6. An elderly dame, too, dwells in my neighborhood, invisible to most persons, in whose odorous herb garden I love to stroll sometimes, gathering simples and listening to her fables for she has a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what fact every one is founded, for the incidents occurred when she was young.
  7. They caused it to be as a craved treasure of mythology, hung amid tasks and contrivances of danger.
  8. Divine and heroic figures in the Indian mythology use these highly powerful weapons called astra.
  9. By degrees the sun disappeared behind the western horizon but as though to prove the truth of the fanciful ideas in heathen mythology, its indiscreet rays reappeared on the summit of every wave, as if the god of fire had just sunk upon the bosom of Amphitrite, who in vain endeavored to hide her lover beneath her azure mantle.
  10. Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art but it is pursued with irreverent haste and heedlessness by us, our object being to have large farms and large crops merely.