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Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. . . . Myth has two main functions. The first is to answer the sort of

Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. . . . Myth has two main functions. The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as: 'Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the first man? Where do souls go after death?'. . . . The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs.

Robert Graves
Religious, Children, Believe

Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.

Robert Graves
Running, Strong, Children
Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire.

Robert Graves
Children, Heart, Fire
Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to treat his children as slaves, if at the same time he treats his slaves with reasonable consideration.

Robert Graves
Children, Men, Should Have
Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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