A myth is a story which can be retold by any number of people, and which nonetheless carries the particular message or meanings of its original producer.

The function of myth is to empty reality: it is, literally, a ceaseless flowing out, a haemorrhage, or perhaps an evaporation...

Myth is a type of speech chosen by history: it cannot possibly evolve from the 'nature' of things.

Myth is not defined by the object of its message, but by the way in which it utters this message.

Myth hides nothing: its function is to distort, not to make disappear.

The theoretical peculiarity of myth is that it abolishes the complexity of human acts.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Myths are nothing more than the sum total of the language systems by which we communicate.

The sign, in myth, is always in equilibrium; it belongs to a world both historical and natural.

Mythologies