mythistory
English
Etymology
Blend of myth + history
Noun
mythistory (countable and uncountable, plural mythistories)
- 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.
- 2005, Andreas Gaile, Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey (page 38)
Related terms
- mythistorical
- mythistorically