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S TRUCTURES (AND SPACES)<br />

as given what actually has to be found in the myth: the correct indexing of the various ele-<br />

ments. The task of the anthropologists, in fact, is far from trivial: they have to retrieve, be-<br />

low the surface of the mythical narration, the deeper correspondences that bind together the<br />

character and actions of the narrated story and represent its ultimate meaning. The applica-<br />

tion to the Oedipus myth produces the following structure (which must be read from left to<br />

right, to reproduce the narrative order, and from top to bottom to appreciate the four basic<br />

“chords”, i.e. the basic relations generating the myth):

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