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The French anthropologist Claude Lvi-Strauss scoured the Amazon forest for the myths of its primitive peoples. He found that a certain logic governed the construction of these mythshis mythologique he regarded this logic as innate in the human mind and thus universal. Despite this claim of universality, Lvi-Strauss deliberately sidestepped the myths of the biblical religions as well as the myths of modern societies. This proved to be a missed opportunity since these myths lend themselves very well to his mode of analysis. Read more