"mytharc" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, Heath Smith, “TAN: Neon Genesis and how to do the mytharc properly”, in aus.tv.x-files (Usenet):",
          "text": "This [Neon Genesis Evangelion] is one show that -really- has me sucked in. And yes, their mytharc has to be the most perfectly constructed thing I've ever seen. :)",
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          "ref": "2008, J. P. Telotte, The essential science fiction television reader, page 234:",
          "text": "The mytharc is a continuous story line about the government's involvement in a plot to cover up the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth.",
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