Her determinedly neo-romantic poetry explores sacred myth, legend, history-in-landscape, and human feeling-and their connections to the 'inner landscapes' of the imaginative mind.

The birth of the gods coincides with the twin birth of sacred myth and hierarchical power.

He looked round again, sure his audience was with him, all keenly interested in the story of their sacred myths.

Jesus Christ is sacred myth historically located in time and incarnated in the material universe.

To the human race they were no more than a sacred myth, a contradictory mass of tradition.

Within this construction, the sacred myths blended with history.

Spanish mythology would encompass all the sacred myths of the cultures in the region of Spain.

He blasted the cult of political martyrdom that fueled the I.R.A., and ridiculed the sacred myths of 1916 as so much green fog.

Tom Slayton, editor of Vermont Life (published by the state's development agency), dryly describes his job as "keeper of the sacred myths."

Mr. Shepard's people are the sort whose vocabularies are stocked with brand names, whose sacred myths have been acquired from movies and television.