Living Myths : How Myth Gives Meaning to Human Experience

Rating:
Summary: I enjoyed the reading but...
Review: I read this book in couple of days' time, and I could not stop it till I finished. In that sense, I liked it a lot.

However, its main flaw is: how can the author tell the meaning of a myth -or a tale or whatever- for people living thousands of years ago? And why such a meaning is to be a transcendental one? Could it not just be that our ancestors enjoyed (as we do nowadays) listening to a nice story of love, death and/or conflict where beautiful women, heroic and strong men and bad enemies (whether humans or gods) are involved?

So I liked the book but I do not think that the author has proved that the meaning of myths is the one he defends.