mythmaker

[ mith-mey-ker ]

/ ˈmɪθˌmeɪ kər /

a creator of myths.

Origin of mythmaker

First recorded in 1870–75; myth + maker

myth·mak·ing, noun

Of course, in very advanced scientific theory we are driven again to myth-making.

Literature in the Elementary School |Porter Lander MacClintock
I can think of nothing but the strides of some Titan, so vast as to beggar even the myth-making imagination.

America To-day, Observations and Reflections |William Archer
The Norse form of the story exhibits a later survival of the credulous, or myth-making, mental condition.

The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) |Charles Mills Gayley
Nothing is proved, except that in myth-making the natives think that this metamorphosis may have occurred in the past.

The Secret of the Totem |Andrew Lang

Compared with the Hellenic and Teutonic races, the Romans were not myth-making, nor in the sincerest sense poetical.

Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature |John Addington Symonds