Myths are not only mirrors, but corridors of mirrors. When we enter them, they become systems of thought branching towards the outer world and tunnels of enlightenment rooting towards the unconscious soul. We have constructed them to lead us back and forth from dream and vigil and from sensation to experience; and if we willfully abandon them, we will be left, in the full meaning of the word, senseless.
Alberto Manguel (Canadian writer, translator, and editor)