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Creating or tending to create a traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people

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  • I really need to look into the mythopoeic challenge!
  • I felt my heart quicken, caught in a mythopoeic moment.
  • I have more or less a total mythopoeic reader crush on Elizabeth Bear.
  • Even down to 1750, the ballads on Rob Roy's sons are more or less mythopoeic.
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