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Descriptor English: Mythology
Descriptor Spanish: Mitología
Descriptor mitología
Scope note: Conjunto de historias, de origen desconocido u olvidado, que explican determinadas prácticas, creencias, instituciones o fenómenos naturales. La mitología incluye leyendas y cuentos populares. Este término hace referencia tanto a la mitología clásica como a un conjunto de pensamientos modernos y de la vida moderna. (Traducción libre del original: Webster's 1st ed).
Descriptor Portuguese: Mitologia
Descriptor French: Mythologie
Tree number(s): I01.076.201.450.685
K01.517.647
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009229
Scope note: A body of stories, the origins of which may be unknown or forgotten, that explain practices, beliefs, institutions or natural phenomena. Mythology includes legends and folk tales. It may refer to classical mythology or to a body of modern thought and modern life. (From Webster's 1st ed)
Annotation: medical mythology: do not coordinate with MEDICINE
Allowable Qualifiers: PX psychology
Entry Version: MYTHOL
DeCS ID: 9422
Unique ID: D009229
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1993/06/04
Mythology - Preferred
Concept UI M0014378
Scope note A body of stories, the origins of which may be unknown or forgotten, that explain practices, beliefs, institutions or natural phenomena. Mythology includes legends and folk tales. It may refer to classical mythology or to a body of modern thought and modern life. (From Webster's 1st ed)
Preferred term Mythology



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