Oh, you mean like Orpheo rescuing Euniphon from the Underworld?” said Roland.

Rob Anybody just stared.

“It’s a myth from Ephebe,” Roland went on. “It’s supposed to be a love story, but it’s really a metaphor for the annual return of summer. There’s a lot of versions of that story.”

(...)

“A metaphor is a kind o’ lie to help people understand what’s true,” said Billy Bigchin, but this didn’t help much.

Autor: Terry Pratchett