A great deal of the language and symbolism in myth is fantastic by rational and empirical criteria we ordinarily use in any kind of research or scientific work. Girard admits that much of myth is fantastic but holds that anthropologists and historians of religion have unfortunately held to a "one rotten apple spoils the whole barrel" approach. That is, because there are rotten apples, unbelievable things, in the stories and texts studied, then everything about them must be unbelievable. But this is not the case. There are still at least two good apples, and these are very important apples,
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