The truth is that the resemblances [between pagan myths and Christianity] tell nothing either for or against the truth of Christian Theology. If you start from the assumption that the Theology is false, the resemblances are quite consistent with that assumption. One would expect creatures of the same sort, faced with the same universe, to [...]

While we are loving the man, bearing the pain, enjoying the pleasure, we are not intellectually apprehending Pleasure, Pain or Personality. When we begin to do so, on the other hand, the concrete realities sink to the level of mere instances or examples: we are no longer dealing with them, but with that which they [...]

[Mythology is] based on a solider reality than we dream: but…also at an almost infinite distance from that base….gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.
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C. S. Lewis, Perelandra (New York: Scribner, 1972), 172-73.