User Contributed Dictionary
Adjective
mythopoetic- being a creative interpretation
- Given the quality of a myth or a poem, used typically in opposition to a purely factual account
Quotations
- Darren Staloff's lecture
Search for a Meaningful Past: Philosophies, Theories and
Interpretations of Human History
- "An example of the former, of the mythopoetic history, may be Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche, or Ecce Homo his own mythopoetic autobiography." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Teaching_Company
- 2000 C A Bowers, Let Them Eat Datahref="http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3Dmythopoetic&sig=vYr0hcrZ5MVosRfXZqLmwtNvPU4">http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3Dmythopoetic&sig=vYr0hcrZ5MVosRfXZqLmwtNvPU4
- "To paraphrase Kelly (1994), we should not be surprised that Nature, having subjugated the bulk of inert matter on Earth, would go on to subjugate the mythopoetic narratives that are the basis of the moral codes that constitute this still culturally diverse world."
Synonyms
Extensive Definition
The term mythopoeic ("of or pertaining to
myth-making", noun mythopoeia; also mythopoetic, noun mythopoiesis)
has several applications:
- mythopoeic thought, a hypothetical stage of human thought (prior to scientific thought) that produces myths.
- Mythopoeia (genre), a word coined by J.R.R. Tolkien to mean myth-making, and poem by the same, that has become a literature and film genre of "myth-like" narratives.
- Mythopoetic Leadership, a business leadership model.
- Mythopoeic Society
- Mythopoeic Awards
- Mythopoetic men's movement