Mythology

At the approach to the central point of the canon of the Mass, when the priest, lifting up his hands, utters the Sursum corda, he raises the whole pattern of action together with the worshippers to the heavenly sphere, symbolized by the ciborium with the starry canopy. In the myth, the spoken words describing the original scene, the historical event is detached from the stream of history and eternalized. In its place in the ritual it fulfils the true function of the myth; it becomes a word of life-giving power, able, as the priest’s words at the moment of communicating indicate, to preserve the body and soul of the communicant unto eternal life. Here the myth reaches the utmost limit of its meaning and its function, and our study of its history may fitly have its ending.

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