Rather the point is to interpret both of those things from the perspective of the reality ofJesus' death. To understand the cross the Gospels insistently present to us in Jerusalem, we have to look by its light at the landscape beyond. The connection to the world of sacrifice and myth is the invisible victim behind both, the cross nobody sees. What lies behind both the practice of sacrifice and the formulation of founding myths is in fact a cross just like that of Jesus.
