Why this word is great
MYTHMAKING — [Noun] The production or composing of myths. From myth (Greek μῦθος, "story, speech") + making (Old English macian, "to make"). Unlike "mythology" (which catalogues the relics of belief) or "storytelling" (which traffics in the ephemeral), mythmaking is the alchemy of turning human longing into something eternal. It is the campfire embers casting shadows into gods, the whispered justification for why the crops fail, the way a mother’s lullaby becomes, over centuries, the song of creation—an attempt to carve meaning from the dark, knowing full well the knife will blunt before the work is done.