And we have to seek for this truth in the fable, just as we try to reconstruct extinct animals from the remains Time has preserved to us.

Behind the story of Prometheus we see the invention of fire; behind the loves of Ceres and Triptolemus the invention of the plow and the beginnings of agriculture.

The adventures of the Argonauts show us the first attempts at voyages of exploration and the discovery of gold mines.

Volumes have been written about the truths behind the fables, and explanations have been found for the strangest facts of mythology, even for the metamorphoses which Ovid described so poetically.
Halfway between history and mythology come the sacred writings.

Each race has its own.