7/23/2019 Definition of Mythopoeia in English

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Definition of  mythopoeia in English: 

noun 

The making of a myth or myths. 

Example sentences For, as noted above, Tasso's is the first vernacular poem to mold Musaeus in the Ovidian

heroic manner: apostrophe, ethopoeia and digressive mythopoeia abound.

A long phase of reverence for rationality subverted his original, spiritually frenetic passion for

tragic mythopoeia. 

He is the only one who relates mythopoeia to the dynamism of human imagination. 

Derivatives:

mythopoeic 

adjective 

Example sentences:

The approach is primarily mythopoeic, recognising that spiritual truths are better understood

by means of allusion and symbol rather than through doctrine. 

In the period before political independence, Francophone prose was typically elevated,

extravagant, mythopoeic, and laced with surreal fantasy or utopian symbolism. 

These psychogenetic affinities and ambiguities between carnal desires, cannibalism, death,and rebirth form the core symbolism of the mythopoeic imagery. 

mythopoetic 

adjective 

Example sentences: 

Through experiences of community, rituals, and teachings, the mythopoetic men sought to 

overcome negative images of masculinity by creating new ones (or retrieving ancient ones)

from myths and poems. 

We hedonists have a mythology of our own, symbolized by a mythopoetic demi-god wholoves a good drink and frowns on those who would keep him from it. 

No less powerfully mythopoetic than the classical image of the disease, the demonological

model envisioned the hysterical anesthesias, mutisms, and convulsions as stigmati diaboli or

marks of the devil. 

Origin 

1950s: from Greek muthopoiia, from muthos 'myth' +  poiein 'make'. 

mythopoesis