Without understanding the myth and its relationship with the unconscious, if not religious expression intuits the aspiration behind the process of creation of the myth by failing to recognize the power of numinous experience, no researcher can hope to comparative religions to derive any meaning from the endless variations of the expression of faith. As a result, many fall into the charade, intellectually safe, the simple classification. Connecting the common elements as if they understand the religion was just another exercise in cross-references. Forget the experience intensely personal, yet universal, so desperately seeking a demonstration of the limitations of language and culture. One of the great historians of Mesopotamia, Professor Leo Oppenheimer, of Chicago Oriental School, quipped on the creators of "system flowing smoothly, decorated in a mass of very clever parallels and comparisons, obtained zigzagging over the world and throughout history known man. "If someone tries the moon, the description and comparison of the appearance of a million fingers pointing in that direction will facilitate much knowledge about its appearance.
M. Baigent, The Sky of Babylon, chap.
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