mythologization

"The Haunted Tree" achieves what I think it is appropriate to call a mythologization of nature.

Wordsworth's 'The Haunted Tree' and the Sexual Politics of Landscape 2001

In the minds of today's GOP, Reagan's purebred right-wing persona has swallowed whole the mutt of his political decision-making; a frantic mythologization has, to this point, sacrificed Reagan the American leader so that Reagan the Republican leader might shine on.

Daniel Cluchey: Searching for Ronald Reagan Daniel Cluchey 2011

In the minds of today's GOP, Reagan's purebred right-wing persona has swallowed whole the mutt of his political decision-making; a frantic mythologization has, to this point, sacrificed Reagan the American leader so that Reagan the Republican leader might shine on.

Daniel Cluchey: Searching for Ronald Reagan Daniel Cluchey 2011

Coleridge's life and Blake's mythologization of the psychosomatics of Milton moving at once inspirationally and with painful apocalyptic dread through Blake's bowels

Notes on 'Introduction' 2008

Taking into account the original film, and George Miller's history with sequels, there's probably going to be a great emphasis on the main character and his mythologization, and I do believe the two of them are going to tie into this, somehow.

Brad Pitt and Matt Damon Join George Miller's Happy Feet 2 « FirstShowing.net 2010

I have also noticed a similar porocess of mythologization around Sri Aurobindo, regarding opposition to a recent non-hagiographic biography.

Mythologization around Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

It seems all too obvious that at the historical moment in which the mythologization of the Germanic past was part and parcel in Nazi regime in Germany, it is beyond mere coincidental significance that an English scholar claims a place for English (both national and scholarly designations) interpretation of a poem, which he claims “turns under our Northern Skies” (emphasis mine).

Archive 2007-08-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

This further illustrates the growing mythologization of Jesus's life that was taking place in the decades after Jesus had died.

Debunking Debunking Christianity Christianity James F. McGrath 2009

That being said, if we place the works of the New Testament in the order that they were written (for our purposes: the works of Paul, Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John) as opposed to the order in which they were preserved, we can actually see the process of mythologization happening.

How We Know That Christianity Is Not True 2009

In fact, the Palmah trilogy as a whole contributed to the process of de-mythologization of the past that has been taking place in Israel since the early 1980s.

Netiva Ben Yehuda. 2009