ABSTRACT
Historians of culture, anthropologists concerned with faiths and works of more “primitive” people than their own, have assembled many parallels to the Hebrew and Greek tales of creation. This had led speculators like Carl Jung to treat them as individuations of an identical insight, the same for every family of mankind. The natural and the supernatural were functions of one another, distinguished by their visibility more than by their behavior. The diverse interpretations of value and existence that it comprehends— even the Heracleitan— only define, defend and vindicate the rational and excommunicate the irrational. Rationalism never quite offset their awareness of the power of evil, their remembrance of how perilous, how ominously recurrent were irruptions of alien and arbitrary force into their own lives, into the lives of their neighbors, into the whole or creation. Greek rationalism provided no workable counter to experience of disruption and overturn at home and abroad.
