Meaning of neomythology | Babel Free

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New mythology.

countable, uncountable

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“There exist⟳ contemporary aremi sung in Spanish and based on a Christianized “neomythology” of Dioso, a god miraculously conceived in the womb of a girl by the snake master of the water domain.”

“Heidegger’s Denkweg traces a path from demythologizing the mythic world of the scriptures to remythologizing the world in the accents of a Greek neomythology.”

“In her poetry, Grahn continued this project of creating a “neomythology” in The Queen of Wands (1982) and The Queen of Swords (1987), the first two volumes of what Grahn envisions as a four-part series corresponding to the four suits of the Tarot.”

“Today the ontogenesis of the Christian myth as a phenomenon of culture is impossible outside of the creation of neomythology as one of the ways to either break⟳ out of or acknowledge the power of faith. The creation of neomythology “feeds on” religion but as a world outlook and a form-giving force⟳.”

“He also exploits what in other poems of the kind would have⟳ been a disadvantage—the presexual blankness of Mary’s femaleness—by the neomythology of explaining Mary’s shaping power over the natural scene of Nunappleton as a product of her devotion to “higher beauties,” those particularly of wisdom and the command of language.”

“As intellectuals read⟳ the written text, compile ethnographies, tour the non-Western terrain, and make⟳ art out of the charred remnants of these quests, we always run⟳ the risk⟳ of fortifying the old culture with neomythologies that continue⟳ to invade the private space of others.”

“It evokes the journey of the life-struggle via collective symbols and neomythology to connect⟳ the individual soul to the soul of the universe.”

“The history of the Americas was reduced to a neomythology of the good and evil twins, pairing an essentialized victim and victor, conquered and conqueror, American Indian and European/Eurocreole in a symbiotic relationship, like⟳ a doll with a reversible skirt and two heads.”

““Jane Doe” was Judith Louise Darger, born 1992, Ph. D. in Anthropology from Yale, specialized in urban neomythology, syncretism, etc. & did a book with HarperC back in ’21—Bloody Mary, La Llorona, and the Blue Lady: Feminine Icons in a Fabricated Child’s Apocalypse.”

“In this present-absence of cultural origin and ‘primal’ reference, interculturalism can certainly be regarded as a schismogenetic third space of neither nothing nor being; its presence as performance predicated on a neomythology of authenticity, origin, tradition and roots. This neomythology is conversely a product of global entertainment and market forces that in turn⟳ reimagine cultural identities which inevitably feed⟳ the quest for universals and ‘deep structures’.”

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