mythistory
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.