Foithermore...

Bad Myth is recounted by rote into the numb skulls of the dead-eyed offspring of The Faithful to inhibit, repress and propagate ignorance in the name of absolute truth by dry & joyless pedagogues convinced of the righteousness of their cause and woe to any child who doesn't conform. Bad Myth abuses the natural joys of childhood inspiring a lifetime of guilt and routinely obedience in dread terror of the hellish torments consequent on any form of deviance. Bad Myth teaches that We are right, and that They are wrong; that We are not They, and that They are worse than We are.

Good Myth, OTOH, inspires the laughter of children and fills their eyes with a light that is an honour for any storyteller to behold in the realisation that they are but a conduit in a process of inspirational recounting in which human individuality is magnified in the name of an all-inclusive objectivism in which the wonders of the universe are there to be questioned, verified, understood merely as part of one evolving brother-sisterhood of 50,000 years of human cultural evolution that seeks and celebrates Unity in Diversity. Good Myth is Myth Unity in which there is no We let alone They for all is togetherness as part of the oneness of The Cosmos which is the whole of the case.

To paraphrase Chris Cutler : Bad Myth deals in force and reaction; Good Myth deals in self-criticism and revolution.

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Interesting that the only Good Stuff in the bible was filched from elsewhere and attached to seasonal traditions derived from pagan archetypes in which Nature is duly revered by way of rebirth and renewal inspiring a host of vernacular lore by way of an oral apocrypha which is pretty suspect however so intriguing. In folk song we have The Bitter Withy and The Cherry Tree Carol, to name but two; these intrigue because there's no priest up there telling us it's true by way of corporate mind-fuck. And still they celebrate the birth of Jesus on the Winter Solstice, and his death on the first Friday after the first Full Moon after the Spring Equinox.

A simple equation : Whenever Myth becomes in anyway True, it becomes irreversibly Bad. In this sense the bible is positively putrid.