Garner says that the focus of his research for the book was "the universal myth of the sleeping hero".

At times, his dances look as if they were improvised in the living room and his theater of images draws from tidbits of universal myths.

There is then an attempt to generalize and move towards a universal 'myth' that can stand for all the utterances of a similar type in their various discursive contexts.

This subject has been the dominant theme of the troupe's recent work, but now it has been enlarged into the universal myth of a son's search for his father.

And Mr. Kosis's well-planned snappy choreography adds to the story's progression from a child's tale to a universal myth.

Little did I know how universal this myth was.

Even the gentiles experienced loss, disappointment, and a sense that they were not quite at home in the world--as witness the universal myths about the first human beings being expelled from a primordial paradise.

"Killer-of-Enemies" recounts the universal myth of the hero who undergoes trials to reach maturity and save his people.

His paintings of the 1990s, in particular, explore the universal myths of existence and meaning rather than those of national identity.

Tchaikovsky's friend, Herman Laroche, writing in defense of the composer and the ballet, noted correctly that fairy tales were universal myths.