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mythopoeic
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myth·o·poe·ic or myth·o·pe·ic  (mth-pk) also myth·o·po·et·ic (-p-tk)
adj.
1. Of or relating to the making of myths.
2. Serving to create or engender myths; productive in mythmaking.

[From Greek mthopoios, composer of fiction, from mthopoiein, to relate a story : mthos, story + poiein, to make; see kwei-2 in Indo-European roots.]

mytho·poeia (-p), mytho·po·esis (-p-ss) n.

mythopoeic [ˌmɪθəʊˈpiːɪk]
adj
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) of or relating to the composition of myths; productive of myths
mythopoeism  n
mythopoeist  n


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In his classic essay of 1955 'The Structural Study of Myth' Levi-Strauss came up with a universal formula of mythopeic dynamics [fx(a):fy(b)::fx(b):fa-1(y)] that he called canonical 'for it can represent any mythic transformation'.
 
 
 
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