This was in strict accordance with the mythopoeic and artistic quality of the Greek intellect.
Tho mythopoeic fancy might conceive of them as the male and female manifestations of one dominant faculty, the spirit of ecclesiastical dominion incarnate in a man and woman of almost super-human mould.
Nevertheless, even in the mythopoeic tales there is a kindred character.
This sense of want evoked by Southern beauty is perhaps the antique mythopoeic yearning.
The appearance of all great men in the world is followed invariably by the rise of that mythopoeic spirit and that tendency to look for the marvellous, which is so fatal to true historical criticism.
But between a poet's deliberate creation and historical accuracy there is a wide field of the mythopoeic faculty.
Now, that under the glamour of myth and legend some substratum of historical fact may lie, is a proposition rendered extremely probable by the modern investigations into the workings of the mythopoeic spirit in post-Christian times.
But it is also perfectly true that the mythopoeic faculty is not equally active in all minds, nor in all regions and under all conditions of the same mind.
Most of us differ from Sir Walter only in not knowing about this tendency of the mythopoeic faculty to break out unnoticed.
For this, confused with a degree of grammatical uncertainty of speech, is practically all that we can find under close analysis, of the mythopoeic faculty in little children brought up under modern conditions.
If we have rightly assigned to music the capacity to reproduce myth from itself, we may in turn expect to find the spirit of science on the path where it inimically opposes this mythopoeic power of music.
Babylonia, then, is the chief mythopoeic center for the Semitic region, but we are not warranted in extending its influence as myth-maker beyond this region.
A somewhat higher stage of mythopoeic development is represented by peoples of Oceania and North America.
This, then, may be used as an illustration of the mythopoeic faculty.
That is to say, the power which produced them was analogous to the power which we observe in poetic creation at the present day, and which has continued the mythopoeic age into the nineteenth century.
The difficulty which besets the problem of mythology, owing to the remote antiquity of the myth-making age, is to some extent removed by observing the operation of the mythopoeic faculty in the historic period.
This imperfect adjustment of language to the purposes of thought is not peculiar to the mythopoeic age.
In dealing with Greek mythology it must be remembered that the nation with whose mythopoeic imagination we are concerned was the Greek nation.
But there remained a background of dimly descried and cloudy forces upon which the mythopoeic imagination had taken little hold; and these supplied a starting-point for scientific speculation.
Strictly speaking, fetichism can never explain the problem of the mythopoeic faculty, except in so far as we may assume it to have formed a necessary stage of human development anterior to polytheism.
Between themythopoeic liberty of creation and the collections of the grammarians was interposed the poetry, the sculpture, and the religious ritual of the historic Greeks.
The truth, therefore, is, that in the mythopoeic as in every other age, words have done violence to thought; nor need it be contested that the idola fori were more potent in the infancy than in the maturity of intelligence.
Therefore, it will not do to accept without further inquiry the general description of the mythopoeic faculty which has just been advanced.
The real thing to bear in mind is that great men and stirring events must have been remembered even in themythopoeic age, and that to eliminate them from the national consciousness would have been impossible.
He quits his god-creating, heaven-compelling throne of mythopoeic inspiration, and descends to a love-story of Asia and Prometheus.
Holding that myth is a product of the early human fancy, working on the most rudimentary knowledge of the outer world, the student of folklore thinks that differences of race do not much affect the early mythopoeic faculty.
Sabaeism, adoration of the dead, mythopoeic fancy, have their part in the fabric.
The origin of gender is most obscure, but its investment of both animate and inanimate things with sexual qualities shows it to be a product of the mythopoeic stage of man's progress, and demands some reference in these pages.
To us the charm and interest of it lie in detecting within it the ancient deposit of a mythopoeic period, and in deciphering from it what manner of men they must have been among whom such explanation of the beginnings had credence.
Intellectually, the Aryan tribes were, speaking broadly, in the mythopoeic stage, and the personification of phenomena was rife among them.
This poem is not only the gem of the series, but embodies the mythopoeic spirit of classical imagination in a manner unknown in the later days of the renaissance.
Love's Mistress is the appropriate and attractive title of a dramatization of the last-born fancy of the mythopoeic spirit of Greece, Apuleius' tale of Cupid and Psyche.
Symonds treats it as an allegory in harmony with the mythopoeic genius of Greek poetry.
From the fact that it does not occur, may we not fairly suspect that the Invisible King is a creation of the samemythopoeic faculty which engendered the wonder-working comet with its aura of sweet-reasonableness?
Hence mythologists now study mythology in situ--in savages and in peasants, who till very recently were still in the mythopoeic stage of thought.
These "calculations and instruments" were a local mirage; as pretty an instance of the mythopoeic faculty as one could hope to find in our degenerate days, when gods no longer walk the earth.
The early Greek physicists thought that mythopoeic men had been physicists.
From the composition of the first Vedic hymn to the compilation of the latest Purana, religious and mythopoeic fancy was never at rest.
Even in Mark the mythopoeic tendency is already actively at work, so that often the task of historical criticism is to explain how such myths could have been accepted by a reporter who stands as near the facts as Mark does.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mythopoeic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
