ABSTRACT
Northrop Frye reflected a common view when he wrote in The Great Code that myth to me means, first of all, mythos, plot, narrative, or in general the sequential ordering of words', that is to say, a myth is a verbal construct. His view is summarized in the following statement: There are and remain two aspects of myth: one is its story-structure, which attaches it to literature, the other is its social function as concerned knowledge, which it is important for a society to know. Kernyi's conception of mythology had as much to do with the poetry or pattern as it had to do with the narrative or plot of its subject-matter. The Greeks transformed a mythological being that was originally male and wingless into one that was female and winged, fashioning a creature that has served, ever since Oedipus Rex, as the correlate of a riddle.
