But just as often, utopian visionaries have tried to reconstruct a mythic past.

He was not the legendary hero of the mythic past who rode into town on Old Paint.

The room was flooded with a sudden stillness as the five companions stared at the woman from the far-off, almost mythic past.

It is a land detached from specific time, but linked to a mythic past.

They captured the state's present grittiness and glories while rethinking its mythic past.

In "Pendragon," one visits Britain's mythic past while watching the future of its theater take shape.

Nowhere is the turnaround from troubled present to mythic past more manifest than in the work of black writers.

Yet, to some extent, the cyclical aspect of time was present in the mythic past as well.

Ritual allowed time to periodically return to the mythic past and renew life in the universe.

At the same time the city fills with stuff; the mythic past is pushed aside, except it won't bug off so easily.