mythologem

Alternative forms

 * mythologeme

Etymology
First used in 1949 by Carl Kerenyi in "Prologomena" (published in Science of mythology: Essays on the myth of the divine child and the mysteries of Eleusis, edited by C. G. Jung and C. Kerenyi). From, from , from +. The -em could be interpreted as an analogue of.

Noun

 * 1) A basic core element, motif or theme of a myth.

Translations

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