Mythology (n.) is, as a mode of thinking, more expressive and more exact than the kind of abstract scientific terminology which wrongly thinks that, one fine day, it will be resolved into algebraic equations.
Mythology (n.) is a human need. We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
Mythology (n.) is taken in total, a sort of projection of the collective unconscious.
Mythology (n.) would start all over again with the next generation if every tradition on earth were cut off at a single blow.
Mythology (n.) cannot be merely suggested by the environment — what is suggested had to come into existence somehow; once its utterances were original numinous experiences, and still can be.
Mythology (n.) is where both kinds of thinking end when carried to extremes — the one in cells, atoms and vibrations, the other in 'eternal' ideas; specialist mythology spells death to universality.
Mythology (n.) taken too literally risks being repudiated lock, stock and barrel — better, for once, to understand it symbolically than wipe it out.
Mythology (n.) is not "true" like a mathematical law, yet it holds as many truths as a natural science on a different plane, and can be studied scientifically as a natural product like plants, animals or chemical elements.