mythicize
mythicise BrE

It was an adolescent writer's beginning: I had started to mythicize.

The movie has profound things to say about gossip, storytelling and the primal urge to mythicize personal experience (Holden).

It is easy to ridicule the year and easy to mythicize it, harder to admit that it was a mixed bag not suitable for swift characterization.

In a country that loves to mythicize its best artists, he is one of the few still alive with a place in the Modernist pantheon, which includes men like the late painter Rufino Tamayo, the late architect Luis Barragan and the poet Octavio Paz.