The process of mythologizing involves the objectification of social experiences to shape and control them.
The process of mythologizing critical events is unending.
However, there are aspects of mythologizing a traumatically perceived shared experience that still need to be developed and discussed.
Through such performances landscapes constituted networks of socially significant places and landmarks which became imagined, mythologized, marginalized and contested in their various representations.
This paper focuses on these seemingly contradicting perspectives about mythologizing and positions them in the context of a perceived traumatic shared experience.
There is vast literature on the f unctionality and implications of mythologizing in modern societies.
Herodotus began that process when he demonized some foreign tribes while mythologizing others.
Studying the process of mythologizing a traumatically perceived experience in the context of socio-political ideological rifts may benefit from the conclusions of this paper in several ways.
