Definitions for mythopoeia
ˌmɪθ əˈpi əmythopoeia

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1. mythopoeianoun

   Creation of any myth.

2. Etymology: dated 1951, based on.

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1. Mythopoeia

   Mythopoeia (Ancient Greek: μυθοποιία, romanized: muthopoiía, lit. 'myth-making'), or mythopoesis, is a narrative genre in modern literature and film where an artificial or fictionalized mythology is created by the writer of prose, poetry, or other literary forms. This meaning of the word follows its use by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1930s. The authors in this genre integrate traditional mythological themes and archetypes into fiction. Mythopoeia is also the act of creating a mythology.

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1. Mythopoeia

   Mythopoeia is a term used by J.R.R. Tolkien as a title of a poem. The term has also been used in English since 1846. Tolkien wrote Mythopoeia following a discussion on the night of 19 September 1931 at Magdalen College, Oxford with C. S. Lewis and Hugo Dyson. Lewis said that myths were "lies breathed through silver". Tolkien's poem explained and defended creative myth-making. The discussion was recorded in the book The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter. The poem is addressed from "Philomythos" to "Misomythos" and takes a position defending mythology and myth-making as a creative art about "fundamental things". The poem begins by addressing C. S. Lewis as the Misomythos, who at the time was sceptical of any truth in mythology: Tolkien chose to compose the poem in heroic couplets, the preferred metre of British Enlightenment poets, as it was attacking the proponents of materialist progress on their own turf: The poem refers to the creative human author as "the little maker" wielding his "own small golden sceptre" ruling his subcreation: The reference to not bowing before "the Iron Crown", and later reference rejecting "the great Artefact" have been interpreted as Tolkien's opposition and resistance to accept what he perceived to be modern man's misplaced "faith" or "worship" of rationalism, and "progress" when defined by science and technology: It must be stated though that Tolkien believed in rationalism, however, he did not believe that the modernist project was actually based on rationalism.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mythopoeia in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mythopoeia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mythopoeia
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythopoeia
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=mythopoeia