mytho-logicn.2
/ˌmɪθəʊˈlɒdʒɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɪθoʊˈlɑdʒɪk/ Cultural Anthropology.
An underlying structure or coherent pattern discernible in mythological systems.
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mytho-logic1979
1972 Current Anthropol. 13 551/1 Aphrodite cannot act otherwise than is appropriate to the ‘Aphrodite aspect’ of the cosmos: sensual love, attraction of opposites, etc. This is mythologic logic.]
1979 A. Kuper in Man 14 647 I treat the dream as a form of argument, conducted by the rules not of logic but of mytho-logic.
1984 RAIN No. 61. 12/2 Evidence from ancient Egypt to Michelangelo combines to produce a pattern of ‘mytho-logic’ which it is impossible to ascribe to a single human community at any specific time.
1993 Man 28 162/1 His [sc. Edmund Leach's] ‘theory of anomaly’ and of ‘mytho-logic’ rests on the assumption that ambiguous or anomalous items could be identified quite simply.
1999 Current Anthropol. 40 480/2 Ethnographies from across Mesoamerica have pointed to the significance of balance in native cosmologies. Lévi-Strauss (1995) would see this as part of the dynamic dualism characteristic of native ‘mythologic’ throughout the hemisphere.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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