The Oral Tale

and strong as an olive branch winding through stone. For The Iliad, I needed a voice of bronze, a voice of wind, a voice of fire. I needed to forge greatness without hyperbole, power without pomposity: as massive as a mountain, as soft as night, as powerful as sleep.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear. So the Spiritual Teachers of humanity, like Buddha and Jesus, created a device to circumvent the opposition of their listeners: the story. They knew that the most

The anathema of logos is "mythos". It is subjective, the personal; the oral story, the poetry - mythos speaks of eagles carrying golden keys, and of the Earth being created in seven days; it speaks of gods riding through the rainbow bridge.