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Updated: June 3, 2025
They do what you cannot so effectually do in the North; they humanize it, identifying its various aspects with their own moods, its features with their own traditions." Mr. Heard thought of those tremendous mists he had seen only an hour ago the daughters of old Ocean. "They humanize it," he echoed. "The mythopoetic faculty!"
We canonise as prodigally as in the mediaeval ages, and are as keen as ever about relics. We are still looking out for dead King Arthur: he will return by way of the County Council. Our mythopoetic instinct is as active as of yore, only the mode of its expression is changed. It works on modern lines, has taken to prose instead of poetry, and only occasionally unfurls wings.
Because we no longer create gods and goddesses, or people the woods and brooks with fairies and nymphs, and the forest with gnomes and the hills with hobgoblins because we do not soften our lives with an atmosphere of gracious supernaturalism, and fresco our azure ceiling with angels it is assumed that the mythopoetic instinct is dead. Far from it!
Madonna, on the other hand, can subdivide with the ease of an amoeba, and yet never lose her identity or credibility; moreover, thanks to her divine character, anything can be accredited to her anything good, however wonderful; lastly, the traditions concerning her are so conveniently vague that they actually foster the mythopoetic faculty. Hence her success.
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