No, allegory is allegory, and myth is myth. A myth can be an allegory, but a myth is not, in the totality, an allegory. The allegory, by its nature, has its purpose outside itself. It is a utility. The myth is among those grand and illustrious things called useless, like a baby and a mother and a father, things not in service to, though they serve, but the primaries that undergird all other activities. You cannot, I tried to explain to a friend, be wholly practical; you must, at some primaeval step, be unpractical about the things you’re practical about.