The Emblems of Religion don't belong ... or do they?

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Originally Posted by Imladris

The role of mythology is to make things more clear, transpose the abstract into the understandable In a word (or more), I think that fantasy/myth is beyond this world, and the religions of this world

Not sure that I agree. I understand what you are saying in that religion is used to make the "abstract" more comprehensible. But on the other hand, religion has its 'fuzzy' areas where some components require faith to fill in gaps in knowledge/facts. Certain things cannot be reduced to cold hard text on a page, but have to be felt, experienced, lived, accepted.

And isn't mythology just another's perspective on one's religion? For example, I've always loved to read Greek/Roman mythology - stories about Zeus, Heracles, et al. Weren't these stories considered at a time to be 'religion?'

Wasn't Tolkien's purpose in writing the Silmarillion etc to create a mythology for Europe? Not sure if there is a church for the same (is it here?), but I like the way Tolkien's religion works.