For the mythopoeic mind the pastiche held the aura of its referent. The imitation did not represent the thing but was the thing and replaced the thing's immediate presence. "In the tobacco smoke rising from a pipe the mythical consciousness sees neither a mere symbol nor a mere instrument for making rain -- it sees the tangible image of a cloud and in this image the thing itself, the desired rain." (Cassirer) Likewise, when the artist brought the idea into being he did not manufacture a product, instead he let presence 'radiantly appear.' The mythopoeic Greek, swayed by the radiant presence of the image, reacted as if it were the real thing.