mythistory

English

Etymology

Blend of myth +‎ history

Noun

mythistory (countable and uncountable, plural mythistories)

1. 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.

Related terms

• mythistorical
• mythistorically