The Tricky Or Boastful Gods Of Ancient

This Story Of Loss And Regaining Of Identity Is, I Think, The Framework Of All Literature.

Myths, As Compared With Folk Tales, Are Usually In A Special Category Of Seriousness: They Are Believed To Have "really Happened,"or To Have Some Exceptional Significance In Explaining Certain Features Of Life, Such As Ritual. Again, Whereas Folk Tales Simply Interchange Motifs And Develop Variants, Myths Show An Odd Tendency To Stick Together And Build Up Bigger Structures. We Have Creation Myths, Fall And Flood Myths, Metamorphose And Dying-god Myths.

Our Country Has Shown A Lack Of Will To Resist Its Own Disintegration .. . Canada Is Practically The Only Country Left In The World Which Is A Pure Colony; Colonial In Psychology As Well As In Mercantile Economics.

The Disinterested Imaginative Core Of Mythology Is What Develops Into Literature, Science, Philosophy. Religion Is Applied Mythology.

The Simplest Questions Are The Hardest To Answer.