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  1. n. Creation of myth.

Etymologies

  1. 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.”

    The WELL: Box Of Rain

  • “Romantic mythopoesis is most powerfully and early proposed in”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas

  • “Christianity upon an alien mythopoesis, he dons human attributes, talking and acting as a man (H.F. Tozer).”

    Old Calabria

  • “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.”

    Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia

  • “LeGuin’s sensitive and humane mythopoesis more than I do Vonnegut’s absurdist irony in my own works.”

    I’m Ursula K. Le Guin! | Mind on Fire

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