Homo Ludens (book) - VIII. The Elements of Mythopoiesis

VIII. The Elements of Mythopoiesis

“As soon as the effect of a metaphor consists in describing things or events in terms of life and movement, we are on the road to personification. To represent the incorporeal and the inanimate as a person is the soul of all myth-making and nearly all poetry.”

Mythopoiesis is literally myth-making.

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