A myth is what we call someone else's religion

Crater on Ceres 
or Bow Lake at sunset
CC Jean Stimmell: 3/6/15

It has been said that a myth is 

what we call someone else's religion.

In ancient times

one's fate was determined by

Apollo, Athena, and that whole crew:

The Oracle of Delphi
was always consulted

before voyagers set forth
in their swift ships.

Now science is our de facto god

But, really, what has changed?

Observe the narrative
in the newspaper today
about our swift ship

called Dawn on her "voyage

 between Mars and Jupiter
to visit a dwarf planet

named Ceres."

"'It went exactly the way we expected.

Dawn gently, elegantly slid into Ceres' 

gravitation embrace,' said the chief 

engineer of the NASA mission.

The drama is the same
only now our oracle
is an engineer.
xxx

Is it ice?
The bright spots inside a 92km-wide crater have been the big surprise
of the encounter with Ceres so far.