The objective world is only material : it's there, but it could be there in a great many different forms and aspects... Even here there [are] still possibilities: it can't be just anything. But perhaps extracting a finite schema from the variety of mythologies, literatures, or religions might contribute something to the understanding of what some of these possibilities could be. The individual can't create his own world, except in art or fantasy: society can only create a myth of concern. What fun if one could get just a peep at what some of the other worlds are that a new humanity could create–no, live in.

The "Third Book" Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964–1972 (2002)