They include simple and more complex versions of themselves, and they can be summed up in a few words or spun out as tales over a thousand and one nights. True myths cross class lines, going from a peasant hearth to a cafe table at a university. They don't always tell the same story. Beyond the core message, versions are different and the moral of the story may change. Magic accompanies myths.
Myths are social property.
They exist to help us build utopias on a small scale, to create lives of saints, images, common references, styles of action and morals, in order to make these real. II Ernesto Guevara died thirty years ago. We know that on that morning of October 8th, a CIA agent introduced himself to Che and that Che insulted him. We know that this agent, of Cuban origins, photographed Che's journal outside the house of the telegrapher and sent a coded message to Santa Cruz which was immediately transmitted to Washington. So I stepped backwards, towards the doorsill, I closed my eyes and I fired the first round.