mythologise
Turn into legend
To mythologise is to make something into myth—transforming ordinary events, people, or history into legendary narrative.
Writers mythologise the past when they imbue it with symbolic meaning beyond mere facts: The film mythologises the Old West.
The word often carries skepticism, suggesting embellishment or distortion: We've mythologised the founders into demigods.
British spelling of mythologize.
Recounting events aloud
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- legendUnverified traditional tale
- sagaExtended heroic narrative
- epicImpressively grand in scope
tale · fable · parable · allegory · oral tradition · mythos · narrative · chronicle
storytelling
Recounting events aloud
epic · tale · fable · parable · allegory · oral tradition · mythos · narrative · chronicle · retelling
romanticize
Portray as more appealing
- glorifyPraise to excess
- exaggerateOverstate beyond truth
- dramatizeDepict with heightened emotion
idealize · aggrandize · embroider · inflate · overstate · magnify · distort · color · gild · overdraw
deities
Worshipped supernatural beings
demigods · titans · roman · shinto · polynesian · creation · cosmogony · underworld · afterlife · divine
mythologisedocument
Written or electronic file
record · chronicle · verify · fact-check · authenticate
mythologisedebunk
Expose as false
deflate · cut down to size · expose · disenchant · demystify
- mythological taleSacred ancestral narrative
- mythological creaturesFantastical beings from folklore
- mythological figuresCharacters from sacred legends
- mythological characterBeing from ancient tales
- mythological beastsSupernatural animals from folklore
- mythological heroesCelebrated characters from ancient tales
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