Inspired by Tamarian, here’s a modest proposal for a mythometaphorical conlang: Intermythic English. Intermythic English is English with the addition of the 150 words below (newly updated!).

Sample Sentences
Yama can sarasvati Babel. “You can speak Intermythic English.”
The Minerva of Babel has Castor and Pollux. “The author of Intermythic English has twins.”
Yama and Nar can ahura mazda new Sarasvatis for Babel. “You and I can create new words for Intermythic English.”

Pronouns
Personal pronouns are not inflected for number, gender or case. The first person pronoun (“I, me, we, us”) is Nar [from Narcissus], second person (“you”) is Yama [from the first mortal in Indian mythology], and third person (“he, him, she, her, they, them, it”) is Skanda.

Lexicon
word [its ultimate known native culture] – its meaning as a verb, noun, adjective
Words separated by a slash are the Greek and Roman forms (Artemis/Diana).Either is acceptable Intermythic.

Achilles [Greek] – to kill, one killed
Adam [Jewish] – a man, masculine
Adapa [Akkadian] – to think, a wise person, wise
Aditi [Indian] – to bear a child, a mother, motherly
Adonis [Phoenician] – to seduce, a seducer, seductive
Aeneas [Greek] – to worship, a worshipper, worshipful
Agni [Indian] – to ignite, a fire, fiery; to anger, an angry one, angry; to digest, a digester/eater, digestive
Ahura Mazda [Indo-Iranian] – to create, a creator, creative
Amaterasu [Japanese] – to rule, a ruler/monarch/emperor, imperial
Amazon [Greek] – a matriarchy, matriarchial
Amitabha [Bhuddist] – to save, a savior, saving
Amma [Dogon] – to weave, a weaver, woven
Amun-Re [Egyptian] – to hide, an unknown, hidden
Anahita [Persian] – to flow, a spring, a river, flowing
Angel [Jewish] – to herald/convey a message, a herald/messenger
Angra Mainyu [Persian] – to rot, filth, rotten
Anna Perenna [Roman] – to feast, a feaster, festive
Antigone [Greek] – to defy, a rebel, defiant
Anu [Sumerian] – to judge, justice/a judge, judgmental
Anubis [Egyptian] – to embalm, an embalmer
Aphrodite/Venus [Greek] – to beautify, a beauty, beautiful
Apis [Egyptian] – a bull
Apollo [Greek] – time [suggested by Jane Connell]
Ares/Mars [Greek] – to war, a war, martial
Artemis/Diana [Greek] – a virgin, virginal; to hunt, a hunter, venereal [in hunting sense!]
Arthur [Celtic] – to unite, a uniter, chivalrous
Ascelpius/Aesculapius [Greek] – to heal, a healer, healing
Aten [Egyptian] – to shine, the sun, solar
Athena/Minerva [Greek] – to create art/write/compose/sculpt, an artist, artistic
Baal [Phoenician] – to fight, a fighter, combative
Babel [Jewish] – Intermythic English
Balder [Norse] – to be gentle, one who is gentle, gentle
Brahma [Indian] – to originate, an originator, primordial
Buddha [Bhuddist] – to enlighten, an enlightened one, enlightened
Castor [Greek] – a twin
Centaur [Greek] – to ride a horse, an equestrian
Cernunnos [Celtic] – to run wild, a wild animal, wild
Chac [Mayan] – to rain, the rain, rainy
Cú Chulainn [Irish] – to defend, a champion, valiant
Cybele [Phrygian] – to enrapture, an ecstatic, frenzied
Demeter/Ceres [Greek] – to farm, a farmer, agricultural
Dionysus/Bacchus [Greek] – to drink alcohol, an alcoholic drink/a drunkard/wino, inebriated
dragon [various] – to hoard, a hoard, miserly
Durga [Indian] – to protect, a protector, protective
Enki [Sumerian] – to devise, a craftsman, cunning
Enlil [Sumerian] – to be true, truth, truthful; to take an oath, oath
Epona [Gallic] – to tend horses, a horse-keeper, equine
Erinnye [Greek] – to punish, a punisher, punishing
Eros/Cupid [Greek] – to love, a lover, loving
Eve [Jewish] – a woman, feminine
Faunus [Roman] – to prophesy, an oracle, prophetic
Finn mac Cumhal [Irish] – to lead, a chieftain
Freyja [Norse] – to work magic, a sorceress, magical
Freyr [Norse] – to engage in an orgy, an orgy, orgiastic
Ganesha [Indian] – to clear the way, auspicious
Genii [various] – to watch over, a guard, guardian
Gilgamesh [Sumerian] – to quest, a seeker, questing
Gorgon [Greek] – to terrorize, a terror, terrifying
Hadad [Assyrian] – to storm, a storm, stormy
Hades/Pluto [Greek] – to die, a dead one, deadly
Hanuman [Indian] – to devote, a devotee, devoted
harpy [Greek] – to kidnap, a kidnapper
Hathor [Egyptian] – to rejoice, a reveler, joyful
Heimdallr [Norse] – to guard, a guard
Helen [Greek] – to entice into war, a casus belli, ruinous
Hephastus/Vulcan [Greek] – a blacksmith
Hera/Juno [Greek] – to marry, a married woman
Heracles/Hercules [Greek] – a strong man, strength
Hermes/Mercury [Greek] – to trick, a trickster, cunning
Hestia/Vesta [Greek] – to establish a home, a home/hearth, homely
Horus [Egyptian] – sky
Huang-ti [Chinese] – to invent, an inventor, inventive
Huitzilopochtli [Aztec] – to represent, a patron, patriotic
Inanna [Sumerian] – to descend and return, one who overcomes, resilient
Indra [Indian] – to conquer, a conqueror, victorious
Ishtar [Mesopotamian] – a bad movie, to make a really bad movie
Isis [Egyptian] – to make a really bad TV show
Itzamma [Mayan] – a lizard, lizardly
Janus [Roman] – to begin, a beginner
Jason [Greek] – to lead an expedition, an adventurer, adventurous
Kama [Indian] – to desire, a desire, desirous
Kami [Japanese] – nature, natural
Krishna [Indian] – to guide, a guide, guiding
Kumarbi [Hurrian] – to rival, a rival/rivalry
Lakshmi [Indian] – to prosper, a fortune, prosperous
Lares [Roman] – to honor ancestors, an ancestor, ancestral
Leviathan [Phoenician] – a monster, monstrous; a huge one, huge
Loki [Norse] – chaos/disorder, chaotic/disorderly
Lug [Irish] – to excel, a jack-of-all-trades, versatile
Maat [Egyptian] – a balance
Marduk [Babylonian] – to impose order, an orderer, orderly
Medusa [Greek] – an ugly one, ugly
Minos [Greek] – to rule by law, a lawgiver, lawful
Mithra [Indo-European] – to make a friend, a friend, friendly
Modimo [African] – to father, a father, paternal
Moerae/Parcae [Greek] – to determine the fate, fate, fatal
Muse [Greek] – to sing, a singer/music [!], musical
Nar Narcissus [Greek] – [first-person pronoun] I, me, we, us
Narcissus [Greek] – self
Nemesis [Greek] – to avenge, a nemesis, retributive
Nephthys [Egyptian] – to mourn, a mourner, mournful
Nergal [Babylonian] – to plague, a plague, pestilent
Ninurta [Sumerian] – to slay a monster, a monster-slayer, heroic
Niobe [Greek] – to grieve, one grief-stricken, sorrowful
Njord [Norse] – to fish, a fish, fishy
Norn [Norse] – to foretell, a seer, prophetic
Odin [Norse] – to seek, a seeker, all-seeing
Odysseus/Ulysses – to travel, a traveler
Ogmios [Celtic] – to orate, an orator, eloquent
Orpheus [Greek] – to make poetry, a poet, poetic
Osiris [Egyptian] – to be resurrected, one reborn, resurrected
Pan [Greek] – to herd sheep, a shepherd/a flock, pastoral
Pandora [Greek] – to hope, one who hopes, hopeful; Esperanto
Pelops [Greek] – to cheat, a schemer, treacherous
Perun [Slavic] – to strike with lightning, a lightning-bolt, flashing
Phaethon [Greek] – to overreach, an overreacher, reckless
Pollux [Greek] – a twin
Poseidon/Neptune – to sail the sea, the sea, maritime
Priapus [Greek] – a chauvinist
Ptah [Egyptian] – to fashion by hand, a craftsman, crafted
Quetzalcoatl [Aztec] – to civilize, a civilizer, civilizing
Quirinus [Roman] – to found, a founder, founding
Rama [Indian] – to uphold duty, a dutiful one, righteous
Rhiannon [Celtic] – to endure, an endurer, patient
Rosmerta [Gallo-Roman] – to provide abundance, a provider, abundant
Rudra [Indian] – to redden, the color red, red
Sarasvati [Indian] – to speak, a word/a speaker, verbal
Saturn [Roman] – to harvest, a harvester, saturnine
Sekhmet [Egyptian] – to rage, a destroyer, fierce
Seth [Egyptian] – to cause evil, an evil one, evil
Shamash [Babylonian] – to watch, watcher, watchful
Shango [African] – to dance, a dancer, rhythmic
Shiva [Indian] – to transform, a transformer, transformative
Sin [Sumerian] – the moon, lunar
Siren [Greek] – to tempt, a temptress, alluring
Skanda [Indian] – [third-person pronoun] he, him, she, her, they, them, it
Soma [Indian] – to drug, a drug
Sventovit [Slavic] – to divine, a diviner, oracular
Tane [Pacific islands] – to grow forests, a forester, verdant
Teshub [Hurrian] – to storm, storm, stormy
Tezcatlipoca [Aztec] – to sacrifice, a sacrifice
Theseus [Greek] – to navigate, a navigator, resourceful
Thetis [Greek] – to shape-shift, a shape-shifter, elusive
Thor [Norse] – to hammer, a hammer
Thoth [Egyptian] – to writer, a writer/scribe, written
Tlaloc [Aztec] – a mountain
Tlazolteotl [Aztec] – to lust, lust, lusty
Vishnu [Indian] – to preserve, a preserver, sustaining
Yama [Indian] – [second-person pronoun] you
Yu [“Yu the Great”, Chinese] – to engineer, an engineer

The source of the vocabulary and its origins is The Wordsworth Dictionary Of Mythology. The trick is that a lot of the gods and goddesses have similars enses (lust or thunder or fire or war) which have to be apportioned over a wider semantic space.

Entries I never got around to defining:

  • Nymph [Greek]
  • Oedipus [Greek]
  • Parasurama [Indian]
  • Prajapati [Indian]
  • Prometheus [Greek]
  • Purusha [Indian]
  • Pwyll [Celtic]
  • Qat [Oceanic]
  • Rod [Slavic]
  • Sita [Indian]
  • Sucellus [Gallic]
  • Svarog [Slavic]
  • Taranis [Gallic]
  • Tengri [Mongol]
  • Teutates [Gallic]
  • Tiamat [Akkadian]
  • Triglav [Slavic]
  • Tristan/Isolde [Celtic]
  • Tyr [Norse]
  • Vahagn [Armenian]
  • Valkyrie [Norse]
  • Varuna [Indian]
  • Viracocha [Incan]
  • Visvamitra [Indian]
  • Wak [Egyptian/Cushitic]
  • Xipe Totec [Aztec]
  • Zanahary [Madagascan]
  • Zeus/Jupiter [Greek]

The Punchline
The punchline of all this is that Intermythic English is not really mythometaphorical. Sure, its vocabulary is derived from mythology, but all the words’ meanings will become set and the mythological associations will be lost, just as they are in the 8 mytho-etymological words in the following English sentence: “Waiting in line to check out Ishtar or Apollo 13, Jason was annoyed by the sound of sirens in that musical jingle about panicking while deciding between a new Saturn and a used Mazda.”

Photo credit: Paramount Skydance.