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mature answer to these questions is, ofnecessity, tied up in a competentanalysis of myth itself, a word whichhas been colloquially equated to “lie,”or if we are to be slightly morecharitable, “ignorant untruth”. To besure, the process of myth-making isgrounded in a degree of empiricalignorance - the cultures whobequeathed to us their mythic legacieswere, on the face of it, scientificallyunsophisticated. I don’t care howmany “Baghdad Batteries” theyunearth, the point is, it wasn’t amodern battery. But a question stilllingers prior to an outright dismissal,namely: is it possible to achieve adegree of insight without completeempirical comprehension? Andanswering this question negatively hasconsequences for even our ownmodern understandings, since such a

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