Literally a Metaphor

I couldn't possibly voice this better than Ms. Rachel Pollack in "THE FOREST of SOULS". I'd like to share an excerpt from this profound book of hers.

"The great mythographer Joseph Campbell once commented that the world is full of creation stories and all of them are wrong. The tarot is like that: full of origin stories, and probably all of them wrong. They are wrong because they take a compelling idea as literal truth. Wrong because they need that literal belief to take the idea seriously, and if someone should dsiprove once and for all these origin tales they will have lost their hold on its meaning and value. But if we can learn to take these origin tales as myths, as divine play, then not only can we let go of this need to prove the superiority of one to all others, we also can appreciate the poetic truth of each one. And we can marvel at this amazing work, this pack of seventy-eight pictures that somehow adapts itself to so many spiritual and historical traditions. "

Just like religion, if they are taken as parables then there is no need to prove that one religious system is greater than others. Because there is a need of humans to triumph in all they do, what they believe is always correct and what others do are always wrong and of lower levels. Because there is a need to stick to "MY" principles - MY principles override everything else that are equally important to others.

Just like everything else, MY origin is the BEST. How sad, isn't it?