Wiktionary
mythmaking
n. The production or composing of myths.
Usage examples of "mythmaking".
Star, not the Hero, was the exemplary archetype that all these mighty mythmaking machineries imposed upon the Dreamtime as the Secret Second Self, the higher level of being that ordinary mortals might aspire at their best to attain.
Future scholars will no doubt prove, Hesse suggests, that the legend is nothing but an invention of the popular imagination, constructed according to folkloristic laws of mythmaking.