This particular quote leads me to believe that myth is something of a creative concept. Like we as humans take our emotions, thoughts, and personalities and use them to create myths as a form of expression. Not to discredit anyone or say that certain religions and spiritualities associated with mythology are “just fantasies”, what I am saying is that the stories from mythologies heavily rely on pathos (known as the rhetoric/credibility of emotion). In simpler terms, myths are powerful because they are human.

Repetition used to emphasize a point he is trying to make. He clearly enjoys using rhetorical strategies in his writing, instead of taking a straight-forward, completely formal voice.

Cf. Rickert's rhetorics

Language similar to that of Hume, here and in the "General Orations" remark below (where generalities are more likely to be universally true than particulars)

This section brings to mind Rickert's rhetorics.

Word choice throughout is noteworthy (and charged): perverts, deforms, defective...

Brings to mind Rickert's rhetorics and Siegert's cultural techniques

Lanham says, "The Strong Defense assumes that truth is determined by social dramas, some more formal than others but all man-made. Rhetoric in such a world is not ornamental but determinative, essentially creative" (156). If that defense is not just restricted to "man-made" social dramas but cultural dramas, to dramas rooted in a particular historical and cultural context (joining Rickert's sense of rhetorics), then it can also be opened up to material forces beyond the human.

Cf. Kennedy's "A Hoot in the Dark"

This resonates with many of the other articles: Rickert's materialist rhetorics, Barad's materiality, ...

Rhetorical context shapes meaning, much like context shapes rhetorics.

Placing rhetorics in a realm beyond the typical verbal/written/oral/aural.

"history, practice, and knowledge."

How effective is the use of parallelism?

For more rhetorical devices, consult Handbook.

How effective is the use of metonymy?

For more rhetorical devices, consult Handbook.

How effective is the use of adynaton?

For a list of rhetorical devices, see Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

How effective is the use of hypophora?

For further discussions on hypophora, see Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

A rhetorical device is used here. Click on this to find out more about apostrophe.

What does "age" and "Rome" respectively refer to?

How effective is this address directed towards an abstract idea?

For a list of rhetorical devices, see Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

Are there colonial methodologies? If so, how can we implement the methodological practices of a culture (i.e. Mormonism) and apply them to a cultural rhetorics study? Wouldn't that be furthering colonialism?

Zooming further out: are there instances where one shouldn't adopt methodologies of a culture?