josepp, take your meds.

I know perfectly well what the metaphor is all about. Not to mention metaphor in general. Have you ever heard of James Campbell? I didn't think so.

I have several of Campbell's books, and I watched the series of television interviews with Campbell done some years ago by Bill Moyers on PBS. Excellent series.

A thorough understanding of what Campbell was talking about is a wide doorway into understanding mythology in general, including the extensive use of myth and metaphor by various religious beliefs and mystical systems.

It is also a great aid to writers of both fiction and non-fiction.

Where many religious folks and people dedicated to various belief systems go off the rails and lose all genuine core understanding of those beliefs is when they assume that the teaching metaphors used by these systems are literal fact, such as the idea that the entire Cosmos was created in seven 24-hour periods and that we all descended from an actual, historical Adam and Eve.

Some people can get pretty nasty toward those who don't buy a particular myth as literal truth. Look at the hot water Galileo got into with the Church over his discovery (along with Copernicus) that the Earth is not the center of the universe. After all, God created the world and made Adam in His own image, so how could the earth not be the center of the universe!?? Blasphemy!!

When religious folks had, essentially, a monopoly on secular power as well as rigid religious doctrine, if you disagreed with something within that doctrine, it could get you burned at the stake!

And there are factions in the United States right now that would like to reinstate that old custom!!

No, josepp, it would appear that you are the one who is bewildered as to the nature of myth and metaphor. And you are mixing your metaphors in a manner that conforms neither to any kind of cohesive belief system, OR to anything analogous to things historical.

The classic response from people like you to any questioning about or disagreement with your belief system is to assume a supercilious air of superiority and proclaim the questioner to be ignorant and backward, even when knowing nothing about the extent of the questioner's knowledge in that very area. This, in lieu of trying to rationally defend your position. Typical

Don Firth