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If Bultmann can say, in a short formula, that the real intention of myth is "to talk about human existence," he can also say \-\- in the immediately preceding paragraph \-\- that the real intention of myth is "to talk about human existence _as grounded in and limited by a transcendent, unworldly power, which is not visible to objectifying thinking_" (184 \[99\]; italics added). In fact, he says already in the programmatic essay itself that myth's "real intention \[is\] to speak \[not of human existence, which he does not even mention, but\] of a transcendent power to which both we and the world are subject" (23 \[10\]).