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Mythopoeic

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Mythopoeic ("of or pertaining to myth-making", noun mythopoeia; also mythopoetic, noun mythopoesis) may refer to:

  • Mythopoeic thought, a hypothetical stage of human thought (prior to scientific thought) that produces myths.
  • Mythopoeia, a word used as the title of a poem by mythology scholar and fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien to mean "myth-making"; it has since become a literature- and film-genre of myth-like fictional narratives, especially in the high fantasy tradition
  • Mythopoeic Society, devoted to fantastic literature including that of Tolkien and his friends
  • Mythopoeic Awards, given annually for outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas
  • Mythopoetic men's movement, a subset of the men's movement that seeks to reconnect men to a lost "deep masculine" identity