Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Creation of myth.
Etymologies
- Attested since 1882; mytho- + poesis, based after Ancient Greek μυθοποίησις. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Makes sense to me that this would be a productive conundrum for mythopoesis over the eons.”
“Romantic mythopoesis is most powerfully and early proposed in”
“Christianity upon an alien mythopoesis, he dons human attributes, talking and acting as a man (H.F. Tozer).”
“As for myself, I thought of the old god Triton, who dwelt in yonder foul lake and showed some kindness to Jason, long ago, when his ships were entangled in the ooze; I thought of Tritogeneia, the savage, mud-born creature who, cast into the purifying crucible of Hellenic mythopoesis, emerged as bright-eyed Athene, mother of wisdom and domestic arts.”
“LeGuin’s sensitive and humane mythopoesis more than I do Vonnegut’s absurdist irony in my own works.”
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