mythology

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mytologia puhekieltä The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deity deities, ancestors and heroes.
(quote-magazine)
puhekieltä A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.
2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ISBN 978-1-57181-187-5, http://books.google.com/books?id=PSi792OErrQC&pg=PR10&dq=mythology page x:

This program to distinguish Austria from Germany was important to building a new Austria, but it also indirectly contributed to victim mythology by implying that participation in the Nazi war of conquest was antithetical to Austrian identity.

This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously.