The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mythopoeic \Myth`o*p[oe]"ic\, a. [Gr. myqopoio`s making myths; my^qos myth + poiei^n to make.] Making or producing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives.
The mythop[oe]ic fertility of the Greeks.
--Grote.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Giving rise to myths; pertaining to the creation of myth.
Wikipedia
The term mythopoeic ("of or pertaining to myth-making", noun mythopoeia; also mythopoetic, noun mythopoesis) has several applications:
- Mythopoeic thought, a hypothetical stage of human thought (prior to scientific thought) that produces myths.
- Mythopoeia, a word coined (and used as the title of a poem) by mythology scholar and fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien to mean "myth-making"; it has since become a literature and film genre of myth-like fictional narratives, especially in the high fantasy tradition.
- Mythopoeic Society, devoted to fantastic literature including that of Tolkien and his friends
- Mythopoeic Awards
- Mythopoetic men's movement, a subset of the men's movement interested in returning men to a hypothetical archetypal maleness in what they perceive to be an 'over-feminizing' modern world
Usage examples of "mythopoeic".
But she soon had it reasoned out that her preconceptions in this regard were no doubt due to the stylizing nature of the mythopoeic process itself, which simplified character and motive just as it compressed time and space, so that one imagined Perseus to be speeding tirelessly and thoughtlessly from action to bravura action, when in fact he must have weeks of idleness, hours of indecision, et cetera.
Masada story remains uncertain, its mythopoeic importance to the Jewish idea is clear enough.
I write this in August, 1999, The History of Our World Beyond the Wave is one of the finalists for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for 1999.
But people think I am naturally redheaded and even make certain tempestuous allowances for me, as they did for Rita Hayworth, who purchased red hair at the same mythopoeic counter where Marilyn Monroe acquired her fatal fairness.
He has won the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Mythopoeic Award, and several Eisners.
I was trying on a mythopoeic body, and as I dropped I spread my wings for the first time, feeling the tension in the enormous thin webs between the fingers of my middle-hands.
But walking across a parking lot was hardly fodder for the mythopoeic pantheon he was creating.