mythscape

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English

Etymology

From myth +‎ -scape.

Pronunciation

Noun

mythscape (plural mythscapes)

  1. A landscape based on myth, or expressed in terms of myth.
    • 2003, Richard Walsh, Reading the 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.
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