VIII. The Elements of Mythopoiesis
“As soon as the effect of a metaphor consists in describing things or events in terms of life and movement, we are on the road to personification. To represent the incorporeal and the inanimate as a person is the soul of all myth-making and nearly all poetry.”
Mythopoiesis is literally myth-making.
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