[f. THEO- + MYTHOLOGY. (Cf. Gr. θεομυθία divine lore, mythology.)] A combination of theology and mythology. Hence Theo-mythologer.
1858. Gladstone, Homer, II. i. 2. That which, following German example, I have denominated the Theo-mythology of Homer. By that term it seems not improper to designate a mixture of theology and mythology. Ibid., v. 366. I have a lively conviction that Homer was (so to speak) the theomythologer who moulded these materials into system. Ibid. (1868), Juv. Mundi, ix. (1870), 349. The will and power of the Olympian deities … may be described, from its mixed character of truth and fable, as the Theomythology of the poet.
