Joined in myth …

… C. S. Lewis and T. S. Eliot: Unlikely Partners in Mythopoeic Pilgrimage. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

For Eliot, the variant world mythologies reflected a universal mythos. Each strand of tradition was a broken image. Piled in a heap, though, with the sun (the Son?) illuminating them, a brighter reality shines through. Lewis’s view concurs: the variant mythologies are individual “gleams” illuminating the “jungle of filth.” The “heap of broken images” and “gleams of strength and beauty” are parallel ideas.