mythistory

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Blend of myth +‎ history

Noun[edit]

mythistory (countable and uncountable, plural mythistories)

  1. A history incorporating elements of myth.
    • 2005, Andreas Gaile, Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey, page 38:
      The phenomenon of mythistory has a continued tradition from Herodotus through Machiavelli to Scott, Burckhardt, Michelet and Kantorowicz, as the renowned historian Joseph Mali explains […]
    • 2006, Ernest Stromberg, American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance, page 220:
      In Mayan, Aztec, and Laguna mythistories, the world we presently inhabit is the Fifth; for traditional Hopis and Navajos, this is the Fourth World.

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