The phrase "mythic status" refers to something or someone that has achieved legendary or iconic significance. It suggests that the subject is celebrated or revered in a way that makes them almost mythical or larger than life. Full definition
Pronger's (andTorres's) devastating hit on Weight - natural attrition in a two - month hockeymarathon - seemed to be just one of those things until Carolina turned it intosomething that had the potential to be one of Those Things, an event soinspiring, so memorable, that it may attain mythic status: in this case, thereturn of Cole last Saturday. (si.com)
But it's high time that young and developing artists are giving something to hang on to other than the edifice of privilege maintained by organizations of important and almost mythic status in the art world like Cooper Union. (dismagazine.com)
For her second edition for The Multiple Store, «Meteorite lands... in the middle of nowhere», Cornelia Parker created a series of meteorite «landings» made by heating a 400 year - old iron meteorite which originally fell on Namibia, and then using it to scorch impact craters on six road maps of the American south, hitting or missing locations she has never visited but which have achieved mythic status in her mind. (themultiplestore.org)