Mythopoeia
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Mythopoeia, or mythopoesis, is a subgenre of speculative fiction, and a theme in modern literature and film, where an artificial or fictionalized mythology is created by a writer of prose, poetry, or
William Blake's mythology is both written and illustrated. Here, Los is tormented at his smithy by the Spectre in an illustration to Jerusalem.
J.R.R. Tolkien's bust by Faith Falcounbridge in Exeter College, Oxford
Tolkien was unable to emulate Elias Lönnrot, who travelled Finland recording oral folklore, and then reconstructed the country's mythology. 1912 sketch for a mural, Lönnrot and the Rune Singers, by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
George Lucas
William Blake's mythology
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The prophetic books of the English poet and artist William Blake contain an invented mythology, in which Blake worked to encode his spiritual and political ideas into a prophecy for a new age. This de
Mythopoeia
…work of art, or artifice, cannot be said to be the narrative of a culture's sacred tradition...[it is] at most, artificial myth." William Blake set out his mythology in his "prophetic works" such as Vala, or The Four Zoas. These name several original gods, such as Urizen, Orc, Los, Albion, Rintrah, Ahania and…
The relationship of the four Zoas, as depicted by Blake in Milton a Poem