MOYERS: You think that the first humans who told the story of the creation had some intuitive awareness of the allegorical nature of these stories? CAMPBELL: Yes. They were saying it is as if it were thus. The notion that somebody literally made the world—that is what is known as artificialism. It is the child’s way of thinking: the table is made, so somebody made the table. The world is here, so somebody must have made it.
