1 Mythical also means imaginary or not real: --
I’d like to see that mythical girlfriend he’s always talking about.
Lastly, an attempt has been made to estimate the significance of the various elements, historical, mythical and fictitious, of which the stories are composed.
In this sense, the concept of shared care is becoming mythical.
The author offers interesting oral histories of the establishment of chiefdoms associated with three mythical ancestors, and ritual centres associated with those chiefdoms.
They interpret the burial/offering complexes as an expression of political authority in ritual and mythical terms.
Moreover, recitations of mythical stories and ritual performances provide the model for the 'good' life worthy of imitation.
Photographs can reveal the material richness of artifacts that we often dismiss as cliché, and enable kitsch and local idiosyncrasy to appear mythical and strange.
There are more mythical elements in our landscapes left than many of us perhaps would realize.
Thus, the study of sacred places and their material culture provides us insight into the mythical ordering of the integral landscape in the past.
