Toward Ecosophy

That's a very important point. The notion that there's just one kind of mythic narrative -- a monomyth, in Joseph Campbell's unfortunate phrase -- is to my mind an unusually cramped sort of Procrustean bed. In fact, the Grail legend is one kind of story -- a tale of loss, quest, and recovery; the story of Arthur himself is a very different kind of story -- a tale of glory and its fall; the story of Merlin, if you pay attention to all of it, is yet another kind of story -- a tale of the irruption of nonhuman power into the human world, and the human being who as child, man, and elder must mediate between the two. (Then there's the story of Taliesin, which is a straightforward tale of initiation.) There are others; the old Arthurian literature is immensely rich in types of tales.