Since 1972, the post-colonial critique has taught students of mythology what Feldman and Richardson already knew: that Europeans had complex investments in the mythologies that they "discovered" during this period, and that to understand what we now think we know about mythology we have to examine the lenses that those Europeans provided for us to look through when we read Greek or Hindu sources. These lenses were invisible to us until anthropologists like Claude Levi-Strauss and Clifford Geertz, critics like Michel Foucault and Edward Said, and mythologists like Roland Barthes, Jonathan Z. Smith and Bruce Lincoln made us aware of them. Now that we have them, we can appreciate all the more, and with a newly suspicious hermeneutic, the sources that Feldman and Richardson collected for us.