In Taberna

The tyrants of the spirit. - Only where the ray of myth falls does the life of the Greeks light up; elsewhere it is gloomy. Now the Greek philosophers rob themselves of precisely this myth: isn't it as if they wanted to remove themselves from the sunshine and go into the shadows, into the gloom? But no plant avoids the light; basically, those philosophers were only seeking a brighter sun, the myth was not clear and luminous enough for them.They found this light in their knowledge, in what every one of them called his "truth." At that time, however, knowledge still had a greater luster; it was still young and still knew little of all the difficulties and dangers of its paths;" Nietzsche -  HATH

"Our thinking is not mythical thinking, but thinking about the myth. We do not think as the Greeks thought, but we think about what they thought. The question is what coincidence Greek thinking has for our own. The reader may find an answer to this question in this account. We are so familiar with the historical view of the world that we are hardly able to perceive the one-sided and also absurdity it contains. The material of the world does not seem representable to us if it is not dissolved, in movement of concepts, thought as development. The mythologist, who makes special history, is confronted with a thinking that knows nothing about the historicization of consciousness, with which he can therefore only unite in so far as he is able to subject it to historical methods. Hence all the research on the influences, on the origin of myths, on the wanderings that the gods, or rather the ideas about them, have taken, in short, the ethnographic, geographical, physical, chronological. T...