Like all great works of art, the great myths change you. Anyone who has attentively read or heard such a story as Archie Phinney’s “Coyote and the Shadow People” will know that the Greek myth of Orpheus is only one version of a deep and powerful human theme, and will have enriched their understanding of such matters as the landscape of the Western Plains, and married love, and death. Imagination is, after all, an intensely practical activity.
