mythscape

English

Etymology

From myth +‎ -scape.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪθskeɪp/

Noun

mythscape (plural mythscapes)

1. A landscape based on myth, or expressed in terms of myth.
   • 2003, Richard Walsh, Reading teh Gospels in the Dark, page 173:

     Forlorn and diminishing, these pathetic gods still inhabit the American mythscape.

   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 24:

     Kosovo was at the centre of the Serbian mythscape but it was not, in ethnic terms, an unequivocally Serbian territory.

   • 2013, Robin M Wright, Mysteries of the Jaguar Shamans of the Northwest Amazon, page 217:

     The entire complex of sites constitutes a “sacred geography,” a meaningful mythscape, for each site consists of the petrification of events from the Before World of the primordial past.