“It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.”

—  Mircea Eliade

The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion (1969), p. 72.

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