Myth

Abstract

This chapter positions George Huxley, the instigator of research into mythagos, in the company of proto-nationalist intellectual movements of the first half of the twentieth century; while Steven Huxley, his son, represents a more internationalist movement. Influences from Ralph Vaughan Williams and Alfred Watkins to Carl Jung all come into play in this chapter. The wood becomes an expression both of the distant past and of our more modern ideas of storytelling. By the time the central characters are transformed into mythagos, it is clear that the main protagonist in the novel is not any of the human or mythago figures, but rather the wood itself.