Quotes from today's Myth class

• “Myth [is] a dramatic presentation of the moral wisdom of the race.  The myth uses the totality of the senses rather than just the intellect.”—Rollo May

•   “Myth is the secret opening through which inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestations.”—Joseph Campbell
• “Myths are things which never happened but always are.”—Carl Sagan

• “Myth… is the distilled essence of human experience, expressed as metaphoric narrative.”—John Alexander Allen

•   “Myth is whatever a people believe or behave as though they believe.”—Richard Guches

• “Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.”