It is a compendium of humans—as flawed as we each know ourselves to be—endeavoring or constrained to live together under a set of customs, both based upon and engendering myth. For myth is the expression of an otherwise ungraspable perception; it grows from necessity and persists as it is operationally useful. When it is supplanted as unreasonable, blasphemous, or absurd, it creates the chaos allowing for new hegemony, and, thus, inevitably, new myth.*
