Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.
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