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mythistory en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of myth + history.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A history incorporating elements of myth.
   • 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 […] 2005, Andreas Gaile, Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey, page 38:
   • In Mayan, Aztec, and Laguna mythistories, the world we presently inhabit is the Fifth; for traditional Hopis and Navajos, this is the Fourth World. 2006, Ernest Stromberg, American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance, page 220:

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mythistorically · mythistorical