Mythic Time & Ritual Time

A discussion on the role of myth in magick and ritual, and my pet theory concerning the mission of the practitioner

One indication of the extent to which a culture is denuded of any concept of enchantment, of spiritual literacy and cultural memory, is its attitude to myth. In the modern west, ‘myth’ is a pejorative term cognate with ‘falsehood’ or ‘misconception’: the myth of meritocracy; the myth of progress; the myth of equal justice, and so on. But myths in their …