The creature is primary.
Myth is not.
Myth is how the creature organizes itself.
Myth is a magnifying mirror where the creature projects
its simplest design
it shorthand-names it a god.
Hoping to annul its singularity
the creature imagines its god to be apart from itself
to be called on for solace and energy.
Ideal feedback, its flaws are heroic.
When loneliness …
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