ABSTRACT
From a reading of the history of Western philosophy, one might conclude that myth and philosophy are opposite, even contradictory terms. Recorded in this history is the presumed fact that, since the dawn of philosophy in ancient Greece, myth (muthos) has been something philosophers have left behind in order to engage in rational discourse (logos). The assumption has been that philosophy replaces myth, so logos is given greater value than muthos. Whereas myths comprise stories about embodiment, birth and death, passion and desire, philosophy claims to be dispassionate discourse whereby pure reason takes control of disorder and rejects impure experience.
