Steampunk Paper Doll Journal - Spread 13 - Myth

"Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.  Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic magic ring of myth.
The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centres dwells in the smallest nursery fairytale - as the flavour of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea.  For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented or permanently suppressed.  They are spontaneous productions of the psyche and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.
- Joseph Cambell (in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces.")