The Importance of Water in Our Mythologies

We can only really see the tip of the iceberg when it comes to our unconscious. Jung would say that the very fact that we have the concept of things like rebirth means that it must in some fashion exist. We don't know what's out there really and our sense impressions are imperfect. The great thing about metaphors is that they encode meaning and they ensure that meaning endures but we often take the symbolism literally knowledge of good and evil eden was our infancy.