Chamber of Secrets can be seen as the first of Rowling's attempts to create a consistent, coherent mythos for Harry Potter.
Others attach chief importance to the slaying of Neoptolemus (Pyrrhus) by Orestes at Delphi; according to Radermacher (Das Jenseits im Mythos der Hellenen, 1903), Orestes is an hypostasis of Apollo, Pyrrhus the principle of evil, which is overcome by the god; on the other hand, Usener (Archiv fur Religionswesen, vii., 1899, 334) takes Orestes for a god of winter and the underworld, a double of the Phocian Dionysus the "mountain" god (among the Ionians a summer-god, but in this case corresponding to Dionysus j Xavaiyis), who subdues Pyrrhus "the light," the double of Apollo, the whole being a form of the well-known myths of the expulsion of summer by winter.
By which I do not mean mythical as exaggerations or perversions of truth, but belonging to the Egyptian Mythos.
However, like everything in the abduction mythos, it does have American characteristics.
By which I do not mean mythical as exaggerations or perversions of truth, but belonging to the Egyptian mythos.