THE OBJECT OF MYTHS IS TO ANALYSE; AND TO DISTINGUISH.

10. If myths are to earn their name (of something "reserved," or

"silent") they must necessarily develop their stories under the

category of time, and present as separate many things, that are

simultaneous, though different in rank or power. That is the reason

they so often mention the generation of ungenerated things, and that

they so often separate simultaneous things.[152] But after having thus

(by this analysis) yielded us all the instruction possible to them,

these myths leave it to the reader to make a synthesis thereof. Ours is

the following:

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