Assertion Quote by Rudolf Bultmann

“However, I have also argued for allegory’s positive effects. It is a process that typically takes control away from the author of a narrative…

— Helen Morales

“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a…

— Brian Godawa

The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto a cosmological…

— Robert Bringhurst

“I know that every interpretation of a myth impoverishes and suffocates it; with myths, it’s better not to rush things, better to let them…

— Italo Calvino

“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some…

— John Bierhorst

“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth…

— Margaret Atwood

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

— Eric Kripke

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only…

— Adam Kirsch

“Reading myth as crystallizing historical fact was a common approach in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is an approach to myth…

— Helen Morales

“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such…

— John Frederick Nims

“myth” in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense “historical” and that encapsulates and reinforces the strongly held…

— N.T. Wright