An example of an essay in utero, not yet developed. Just a sketch of ideas and a framework of threads to follow.
The gods and their symbolic value
Pagans, not as dumb or as different as you think
The appropriate level for understanding and addressing reality
Where humans live
Culture heroes as a touch point of and embodiment of ideology
The ubiquity of mascots
The narrative nature of human cognition
The failure of modernity to provide a meaningful structure for addressing reality
Religious and philosophical language as metaphor
Metaphor as embodied, living ttuth
Scientific language as metaphor when it passes beyond perceptual experience
The appropriate language of thought
The psychological and emotional coherence of the gods
The substantive difference between understanding language as metaphor and language as literal
The forbidding against idols in Judaic religion (because God could literally not be captured or represented effective by them, acknowledging such symbols as metaphors), the birth of the modern approach to being in the unity of Jewish and Greek (who recognized the metaphorical nature of their own religious language) thought
Making Nobody Happy 