Well this woman , Pandora, you know how nosey women are, wouldn't stay in her place, opened the mysterious box, and evil and heartache were unleashed on the world. That's why there's evil in the world. Myth explains, settles, closes the gaps in our consciousness. Crossan says myth's polar opposite is parable. Parable is meant to change us, not reassure us.
Parable is always a somewhat unnerving experience.
I don't like it. Crossan argues that myth has as its function the creation of the belief in a possibility of permanent reconciliation between the polarities and contradictions which bedevil us. Parable hopes to create contradiction within our complacent securities. Myth establishes world. Parable subverts world.