In the scene in Sphere, the characters were talking about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It was a story they were all familiar with, loved, and had in one way or another, influenced their lives. This is what I was talking about, more than the explicator or the just plain supernatural or even stories that conform to Campell's views on mythology and the monomyth. I would imagine that Monty Python and the Holy Grail has become mythological to a certain group of people who had grown up with it.
In the scene in Sphere, the characters were talking about 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. It was a story they were all familiar with, loved, and had in one way or another, influenced their lives. This is what I was talking about, more than the explicator or the just plain supernatural or even stories that conform to Campell's views on mythology and the monomyth. I would imagine that Monty Python and the Holy Grail has become mythological to a certain group of people who had grown up with it.