How are religions different than mythologies?

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Only difference I can find is that there are people who “believe” in religions but almost everyone knows mythologies are just stories. So why don’t religions have the same treatment? They’re essentially the same thing, stories about people who may or may not have existed.

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They are literally two words with two different meanings:

Mythology: the collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.

Religion: belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.

“mythology” and “religion” are different because they are two words with literally (and I mean “literally” as “literally”) two different meaning.

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