Modern Mythopoeia

For reasons which I will not elaborate, that seems to me fatal. Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‘real’ world.

Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings.

Comme le rêve, le mythe semble avoir pour rôle de nous relier à la préhistoire de l’humanité, jusqu’aux instincts les plus primitifs, selon Jung21. Le mythe permet de structurer et de faire remonter à la conscience ce qui sinon resterait au stade de pressentiment. En cela, il représente un formidable pont entre conscient et inconscient.

The Holy Spirit woos us through the beauty and imaginative stories depicted in these works of art. Ultimately this quest can only be satisfied with Jesus and the gospel. These stirrings in art and media provide a means of escape that is, according to J. R. R. Tolkien, heroic.16 They remind us of our homeland and invite us to embark on an epic journ

The divine imagination is rich and exuberant, bursting forth with joy, playfulness, and delight.36 So too is the human imagination in the act of inventing or subcreating. As Tolkien puts it, “We make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.”37 In invention the