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Mysticism
Mysticism is the pursuit of direct experience of ultimate reality or the Divine through practices like meditation and prayer, found in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, and Islam alike.
Mysticism in Republican-era Turkish poetry
Mysticism in Republican-era Turkish poetry is the mystical current in Turkish verse after 1923, founded by Necip Fazıl Kısakürek and carried by poets like Asaf Halet Çelebi.
Mystikal
Mystikal is the stage name of Michael Lawrence Tyler (born 1970), an American rapper from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for the Grammy-nominated 2000 hit "Shake Ya Ass."
Mystique (character)
Mystique (Raven Darkhölme), Marvel Comics shapeshifting mutant created by Chris Claremont and Jim Mooney, debuting in Ms. Marvel #16 (1978); Brotherhood leader, Nightcrawler's mother, Rogue's foster mother, Destiny's partner, and Fox-film staple played by Romijn and Lawrence.
Mystra (Forgotten Realms)
Mystra, the Lady of Mysteries and Mother of All Magic, is the Forgotten Realms goddess of magic, spells, and the Weave. Held successively by Mystryl, the original Mystra, and the mortal Midnight, she enforces Mystra's Ban on spells above 9th level.
Myth
Myth: a traditional, authoritative narrative of origins, gods, or foundational events, treated by anthropology and religious studies as meaningful regardless of literal truth; distinct from legend and folktale, central to the Greek mythos-to-logos debate and to theories from Malinowski to Lévi-Strauss.
MYTH & ROID
MYTH & ROID (ミスアンドロイド) is a Japanese anime-music project formed in 2015 by producer Tom-H@ck, lyricist hotaru, and vocalist KIHOW, known for Re:Zero songs and Overlord tie-ins.
Myth of the clean Wehrmacht
The myth of the clean Wehrmacht is the disproven claim that Germany's World War II armed forces took no part in the Holocaust or other Nazi crimes.
Myth of the First Thanksgiving
The myth of the First Thanksgiving: the harmonious 1621 Pilgrim-Wampanoag harvest feast story, constructed in the mid-1800s around Hale's campaign and Lincoln's 1863 holiday, omitting the Wampanoag perspective and later colonial violence.
Myth of the flat Earth
Myth of the flat Earth: the modern misconception that medieval Europe believed a flat Earth until Columbus proved otherwise; invented largely by Irving (1828), Letronne (1834), Draper (1874), and White (1896), and refuted by Russell's Inventing the Flat Earth (1991).
Myth, Literature and the African World
Myth, Literature and the African World is a 1976 collection of five critical essays by the Nigerian playwright and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, published by Cambridge University Press.
Myth: The Fallen Lords
Myth: The Fallen Lords (TFL) is Bungie's 1997 real-time tactics game for Windows 95 and Mac OS, set in a true 3D fantasy world with no base building; 350,000 copies shipped by December 1997, rights now with Take-Two.
MythBusters
MythBusters is an American pop science TV series on the Discovery Channel, 2003 to 2016, in which Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman tested urban legends scientifically.
Mythic (company)
Mythic, also known as Mythic AI, is an American semiconductor company in Austin, Texas, founded in 2012, that makes energy-efficient analog compute-in-memory processors for AI inference.
Mythic humanoids
Mythic humanoids are legendary beings of broadly human form, from Near Eastern hybrids, satyrs, and medieval monstrous races to modern figures like the ningen and Mothman, studied through monster theory.
Mythic Quest
Mythic Quest (originally Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet) is an Apple TV+ workplace comedy co-created by Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, and Megan Ganz with Ubisoft, about the developers of a hit MMORPG; four seasons, 2020-2025, canceled with a re-edited finale.
Mythicomyiidae
Mythicomyiidae, the micro bee flies (Melander, 1902), is a family of 1–3 mm asiloid flies related to bee flies: 474 species in 39 genera, predatory larvae, flower-visiting adults, and a Cretaceous-to-recent fossil record.
Mythography
Mythography is a modern scholarly term for ancient prose writings that treat myth, spanning systematic works like the Bibliotheca of Ps.-Apollodorus and interpretative, rationalizing approaches.
Mythological Cycle
The Mythological Cycle is one of the four cycles into which medieval Irish saga is divided, containing tales of Ireland's pre-Christian gods, above all the Tuatha Dé Danann.
Mythologies (book)
Mythologies (Mythologies, 1957) is Roland Barthes's Seuil collection of essays on French daily life, ending with "Myth Today," which defines myth as a second-order semiological system that naturalizes bourgeois ideology.
Mythology of Lost
Mythology of Lost: the layered mystery system of the ABC series Lost (2004-2010), covering the island, DHARMA Initiative, Jacob and the Man in Black, the numbers, transmedia ARG revelations, and the divisive finale.
Mythology of The X-Files
Mythology of The X-Files, or mytharc: the serialized alien-conspiracy storyline of Chris Carter's series, involving the Syndicate, colonization, and the Black Oil, contrasted with monster-of-the-week episodes.
Mythopoeia
Mythopoeia, Greek for myth-making, is the deliberate creation of mythology in fiction or culture. Named by Tolkien's 1931 poem for C. S. Lewis; central to fantasy studies, sub-creation, and the Mythopoeic Society (founded 1967).
Mythopoeic Awards
Mythopoeic Awards: annual literary prizes of the Mythopoeic Society since 1971 for fantasy fiction (adult, young adult, children's) and scholarship on the Inklings and on myth and fantasy, presented at Mythcon.
Mythri Movie Makers
Mythri Movie Makers (Naveen Yerneni, Yalamanchili Ravi Shankar) is a Hyderabad-based Telugu film production and distribution company whose debut Srimanthudu (2015) grossed over Rs 100 crore in week one; known for Rangasthalam, Pushpa films, and Nizam distribution.
Myths of the Cherokee
Myths of the Cherokee is a 1902 compilation of 126 Cherokee myths and history collected by ethnologist James Mooney, still a principal source on Cherokee narratives.
Mytiloides
Mytiloides (Brongniart, 1822) is an extinct inoceramid bivalve genus, essentially Turonian in age, whose rapidly evolving species such as M. labiatus, M. hattini, M. incertus, and M. scupini serve as index fossils for Cretaceous biostratigraphy.
Mytilus (bivalve)
Mytilus spp. denotes smooth-shelled blue mussels of the genus Mytilus (Mytilidae), including M. edulis, M. galloprovincialis, and M. trossulus; a 2025 SNP study recognizes seven species, and the group dominates European mussel aquaculture.
Mytilus chilensis
Mytilus chilensis (chorito, Chilean blue mussel), Hupé 1854, a smooth-shelled mussel native to Chile and Argentina; genetically distinct species; 365,595 t farmed in 2018, second only to China.
Mytishchi
Mytishchi (Мытищи) is a Moscow Oblast satellite city on the Yauza River, 19 km from Moscow, first mentioned in 1460, a city since 1925, home to the Metrovagonmash carriage works and the source of Moscow's first water pipeline.