LH - I'm not sure I'd subscribe to your usage of "allegorical" (what characteristic do you see them as emobdying?) but I certainly go along with your interpretation of mythopoesis as a universal psychological activity in the human brain/mind. Especially when you get more than two people together. Telling each other stories may well be the earliest "human" activity (yeah, I know there's eating & screwing, but monkeys do that too). (And yeah, I don't know for sure that monkey - or whales or slugs - don't tell each other stories.) The second oldest human activity is probably fighting over the stories.