"Maybe people just can't quite shake that mythic image."
What are some great mythic images of the mother?
Had he indeed conjured up a mythic image and shaped it to his own ends?
The mythic image of Finn Mac Cool immediately came to mind.
A common thread in the show is generalized and mythic images, which override the representation of particular people.
He took on an almost mythic image, both in Czechoslovakia and abroad.
These musicians seemed to embody the 19th-century mythic image of the virtuoso.
"He had a great sense of public relations and of the need to create a mythic image for himself."
That monster, ladies and gentlemen, was the popular mythic image of the robot at the time when the first actual robots were built.
Consequently, the mythic image of the lame smith is widespread.