Myth Part I. Reading myth : Order : Dying gods ; Words and the word ; The mythical method Chaos : The comic vision ; Singer as shaman ; The sacred and the profane ; The heart of darkness trip Endings : The circuitous quest ; The rhetoric of revelation ; Apocalypse without apocalypse Part II. Mythic reading : Truth : Realism and non realism ; Allegory: the perspective of perfection ; Radical typology: permanent possibility ; Enlightenment and counter enlightenment Psyche : The primal crime ; The search for the self ; The grammar of the mind History : Criticism as vision ; A single story ; Testaments of deliverance Earth : The war on nature ; Nature now and then ; Nature as revelation ; A religion of the world