Abstract
To demythologize myth is to read myth symbolically rather than literally. But there are many symbolic readings of myth. For Freud and Jung, for example, myth is not about the external, physical world but is about the human world – more precisely, about the human mind. For the demythologizers Rudolf Bultmann, Hans Jonas, and Albert Camus, myth is about the relationship of humans to the external, physical world. Literally, the myth of Noah (Genesis 6–9) is about the decision by God to destroy the physical world and then to recreate it. The myth demythologized describes what it is like to live in a world in which one can count on God to treat humans justly. For the atheistic existentialist Camus, the myth of Sisyphus is about what it is like to live in a world without any god, a world in which humans are at the mercy of the forces of nature.
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