Examples of mythologizing

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The mythologizing process included exaggeration, faulty memory, folklore and deliberate hoaxing.

• This mythologizing extended even to place names.