mythopoetic

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adjective

Giving rise to myths; pertaining to the creation of myth.

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Meanings

adjectivemythopoetic (comparative more mythopoetic, superlative most mythopoetic)

comparative more mythopoetic · superlative most mythopoetic

  1. Giving rise to myths; pertaining to the creation of myth.
  2. Being a creative interpretation.
  3. human sciencesGiven the quality of a myth or a poem, used typically in opposition to a purely factual account.

    Nor is it, as poetry, concerned with any ultimate explanation of the product of mythopoetic fancy.

    1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “II. The Suppliant Maidens”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 46
  4. Of or relating to the mythopoetic men's movement.

    Darren Staloff's lecture Search for a Meaningful Past: Philosophies, Theories and Interpretations of Human History, The Teaching Company "An example of the former, of the mythopoetic history, may be Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, or Ecce Homo his own mythopoetic autobiography."

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    "To paraphrase Kelly (1994), we should not be surprised that Nature, having subjugated the bulk of inert matter on Earth, would go on to subjugate the mythopoetic narratives that are the basis of the moral codes that constitute this still culturally diverse world."

    2000, C A Bowers, Let Them Eat Data

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