mythogenesisn.
/ˌmɪθə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnᵻsɪs/, U.S. /ˌmɪθəˈdʒɛnəsəs/ rare.
The creation of myths.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > relating or constructing myths
mythoplasm1731
mythologizing1778
mythicizing1840
myth-making1853
mythopoeia1860
mythification1865
mythopoesis1882
mythogenesis1887
mythopoetizing1893
mythopoeism1899
mythography1927
remythologization1957
mythopoetics1965
mythicization1969
1887 Mind 12 623 The cause of the extraordinary development in man of ‘mythogenesis’.
1975 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 36 125 Frazer seems in general to have inclined more to the ritual theory of mythogenesis in the earlier part of his career (i.e., the first edition of The Golden Bough).
1993 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 2 Dec. 1 e Because mythology is [the] connective tissue of the social body, you need to gather more than one or two people to activate the process—the mythogenesis or mythic imagination.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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