Yeats's mythical archetypes are not always negative stereotypes.
Yeats's use of these mythical archetypes is problematic.
In each case the contrast between image and reality is stark, the" mythical" content unmistakable.
The mythical value of the siege for the construction of protestant- loyalist hegemony should not be underrated.
Instincts are mythical entities, magnificent in their indefiniteness.
Here, cosmology characterises the farmers' world, which is made up of cosmic logics built on the old mythical world.
The barrows, which were clearly visible in the landscape as 'unnatural' features, may have been related to earlier mythical inhabitants of the land.
Thus, the study of sacred places and their material culture provides us insight into the mythical ordering of the integral landscape in the past.
