The German missionaries and priests who criticized pagan religion left extensive records of old mythological systems they sought to overcome.
She is best known for her work on the mythological and philosophical systems of the early Chinese civilization.
Many religious and mythological systems contain myths about a paradise.
In primitive societies this happened through mythological systems and later on through theological thought and religions.
Parallels in other mythological systems for Hephaestos's symbolism include:
On the other hand, individual elements have much in common with other mythological systems, and especially with those of neighbouring cultures.
Or perhaps they were intended to represent deities appertaining to some mythological system with which, thank goodness, I am unacquainted.
As the influence of different cults shifted, some mythological systems attained national dominance.
Various stages of cultural development have different yet identifiable mythological systems.
Throughout Blake's mythological system, he is opposed to Urizen, the representation of reason.