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

The Tricky Or Boastful Gods Of Ancient Myths And Primitive Folk Tales Are Characters Of The Same Kind That Turn Up In Faulkner Or Tennessee Williams.

Those Who Do Succeed In Reading The Bible From Beginning To End Will Discover That At Least It Has A Beginning And An End, And Some Traces Of A Total Structure.

Literally, The Bible Is A Gigantic Myth, A Narrative Extending Over The Whole Of Time From Creation To Apocalypse, Unified By A Body Of Recurring Imagery That "freezes" Into A Single Metaphor Cluster, The Metaphors All Being Identified With The Body Of The Messiah, The Man Who Is All Men, The Totality Logoi Who Is One Logos, The Grain Of Sand That Is The World.

The Poet, However, Uses These Two Crude, Primitive, Archaic Forms Of Thought (simile And Metaphor) In The Most Uninhibited Way, Because His Job Is Not To Describe Nature, But To Show You A World Completely Absorbed And Possessed By The Human Mind.