mythohistory

Etymology

From mytho- + history.

mythohistory means History contained in mythology. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

MYTHOHISTORY — [Noun] A historical narrative in which documented event and symbolic story are inseparably fused. From the combining form mytho- (from Greek muthos, "myth, story") + history (from Latin historia, "narrative, account of past events"). Unlike history, which demands a scaffold of verifiable evidence, or mythology, which collects explanatory tales, mythohistory is the felt bedrock where fact and archetype are inseparably fused. It is the founding of Rome narrated through the wolf-suckled twins, the coronation of a king validated by a sword pulled from a stone, or the ancestral Dreamtime stories that map a continent's soul. This is the indelible shape events leave upon the human spirit—the ache for a past too potent to have been merely human.

noun

History contained in mythology.“During 1986–1987 in Ecuador we had both focused especially on mythohistory and ethnoaesthetics, seeking ways to present the complexities of indigenous thought and imagery in Spanish and English prose to communicate to broad audiences.”