Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms-or, better, in existentialist terms. (Rudolf Bultmann)

Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms-or, better, in existentialist terms.

Rudolf Bultmann

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