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and literary interests merge and sometimes clash with oneanother. Myth has a truth of its own, distinct from that ofother cultural forms since the mythical mind 1s creative andgives expression to its own form of objective reality. It is anecessary stage in the creative expression and self-liberationof the human spirit.Myth holds communities and races more strongly thanlanguage, territory and government ; myth provides insightsInto the victories of life and death with a poetic richnessthat has startling truth and immediacy. There 1s no secularsubstitute for myth. In an age that wants everything capsuled,dlluted and quick-served, myth remains inviolate, demanding tobe experienced and appreciated on its own terms, refusing to besimplified. Fiction embraces both story and myth.It has been impllclt that the theory of myth is, for anyliterary consideratlon, a theory of fictions. Therefore, it isWorth considering the degree to which we think of myth as acompelling or somehow superior fiction from which a krnd ofacceptable or at least usable frame of reference can bedevised, if not for the understanding of life as a whole, atleast for the pursuit of certaln interested ends. And suchends constitute their own set of claims on "life as a whole".Sometimes the degree of overlapping in "story", "fiction" and"myt.hu, happens, whether in relation to what actually occured