mythohistory

English

Etymology

mytho- +‎ history

Noun

mythohistory (usually uncountable, plural mythohistories)

1. History contained in mythology.
   • 2011, Norman E. Whitten, Dorothea S. Whitten, Histories of the Present: People and Power in Ecuador, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, preface:

     During 1986–1987 in Ecuador we had both focused especially on mythohistory and ethnoaesthetics, seeking ways to present the complexities of indigenous thought and imagery in Spanish and English prose to communicate to broad audiences.

   • 2018, Karin Vélez, The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 36:

     Since Loreto's mythohistory preceded modern academic segregations, it defiantly spans historians' temporal divides. Secondly, and for the same reason, the mythohistory bridges frontier and metropole, two zones that are traditionally contrasted instead of being grouped together.

   • 2019, Peter Swirski, Tero Eljas Vanhanen, The Art of Artertainment: Nobrow, American Style, Vernon Press, →ISBN, page 136:

     Taking advantage of their audience's familiarity with American mythohistory, theatrical cartoons, blackout-style sketches embedded within films and television specials, and animated television series such as The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Hysteria, and Time Squad used it as a springboard for comic anarchy.