Formulation of the claim
Popular and medieval interpretations of the myth varied between identifying the location of the cave, making comparisons, and attempting to connect it to a broader religious or historical horizon.
Explanation
The text indicates that this myth was not read in a single way, but received multiple interpretations in popular circles and in medieval writings, so that the ways of understanding it varied between fixing the place, invoking comparisons, and building different interpretive connections around it.
Its place in the book’s argument
This reference comes within material that shows how myth is formed within cultural circulation through differing readings, not as a fixed tale, but as an object of re-interpretation according to context, language, and interest.
What the atom does not say
The atom does not specify these interpretations in detail, nor does it explain the limits of each reading or their authors; it merely points to their plurality and presence.