The critical problem with which we are confronted is whether this art - the art of myth-making - is a species of the literary art. The objection to so classifying it is that the Myth does not essentially exist in words at all. We all agree that the story of Balder is a great myth, a thing of inexhaustible value. But of whose version - whose words - are we thinking when we say this?

-C.S. Lewis, introduction to Lilith