TRUE GNOSIS: THE SECRETS OF MYTHOLOGY, OR THE NATURAL GENESIS AND TYPOLOGY OF THE TWO TRUTHS! The Greek Muthos, which is usually taken to mean a saying, or a word, and is sometimes equivalent to Logos. In consequence, Mythology has been declared to have originated in mere sayings, the clue to which was lost before Mythology proper could have existed. For it has been affirmed by Max Müller and maintained by his followers that the radical meaning and primitive power of certain words (and sayings) must be obscured or lost for them to become mythological; and that the essential character of a true myth consists in its being no longer intelligible by a reference to the spoken language. Such teaching of “comparative Mythology” is the result of its being limited to the Aryan area; and if the myth be no longer intelligible in the later languages we must look for it in the earlier. The Greek Muthoi, for sayings, represents the Egyptian Mutu, for ejaculations or brief utterances. Mutuni means Lo it is, or It is verily so. In a similar sense, “So Mote it be” is used by our freemasons, which brings on a saying and an ancient mode of saying under one word. Mut signifies the pronouncing of conservative formulas and these formulas and wise sayings were part of the muthoi in Egypt.
The muthoi or myths did not begin in Greece or originate in any Aryan language; nor with the sayings which are the fading metaphors of Mythology and the utterances of its second childhood. Nor is the Myth a mere word in Greek. Mutheomai is not simply to say, but to feign and fable, represent and invent. MuqikÕj signifies that which pertains to fable and Myth in an early sense; Muqologew, is to recite fables. In Attic prose the Myth was commonly a legend of early Greek times, before the dawn of history. The Mythoi were no mere sayings in a modern sense; they were mystical. …
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