'Mythographer' has traditionally been a label applied to someone who documents and studies literature classified as 'timeless,' or related to the sacred or imaginary, while 'mythography' involves not only the historical work of the mythographer but also the reproduction of mythic themes and variations of any time period, whether visual, literary, or cinematic, for instance. In Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals, William G. Doty explores mythography's transition from a general category for interpretive strategies for ancient literature into a discipline in its own right in the post-modern context. In this context, mythography has come to refer to a process through which interpretation and the creation of "hermeneutical frameworks" {, 2000 #15@112} are imagined as mythological acts dissolving the deceptive privileging of the literal (True "fact") over the figurative (False "fiction").

For instance, seeing a Disney movie can lead not only to seeing Hercules as the Walt Disney Corporation sees him but also seeing heroism as Disney sees it. One might even go so far as to interpret life ideologically, inflated to the point that all experience seems to fall on an heroic spectrum and imagining that range as being limited to the kind of heroism Disney Inc. would endorse. The reverse of this inflationary process is also an option. A post-modern mythography would propose that consideration of any idea implicated by a 'myth' of heroism might be incomplete without an inquiry into the many ways that heroism has been used as an interpretive strategy in order to create both a system of thought and specific variants which reflect its thinking.

Applied as a pattern, in the way we mean it for group process, 'myth' activates inquiry into religiously held ideas, cultural systems, family/tribe history and patterns, psychology (dream/sub/unconsciousness), personal history, but holding all of the above in a familiar frame, similar to 'story' but more embeded in whole-system awareness, to which any person may have access and to which any expression may contribute understanding.