Noun
Anything transmitted by word of mouth, such as a fable, legend, narrative, story, or tale (especially a poetic tale).
A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group; a myth, a mythology.
(by extension) A set of assumptions or beliefs about something.
(literature) A recurring theme; a motif.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgI have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time. Ryan Adams
The mythos. The mythos is insane. That's what he believed. The mythos that says the forms of this world are real but the Quality of this world is unreal, that is insane! Robert M. Pirsig
They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are in that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic Gods they replaced. Robert M. Pirsig
The mythos is a building of analogues upon analogues upon analogues. These fill the collective consciousness of all communicating mankind. Every last bit of it. Robert M. Pirsig
There is only one kind of person, Phædrus said, who accepts or rejects the mythos in which he lives. And the definition of that person, when he has rejected the mythos, Phædrus said, is "insane." Robert M. Pirsig
As a kid, you just like anything fanciful that you're into, but as an adult, I really love that kind of place where the super hero mythos meets life, where it has that human story; that's what I think I was really drawn to when I started getting into the X-Men. Cress Williams