But my entire point is that metaphysics is largely sophisticated myth.

I'm waving a flag over here, for something or another. I'm a human being. I'm waving the flag of the guy who knows that we're just all waving flags.

I never met a man without a flag, except for the guy that kept it in his pocket. His notion was that he was above all this flag-waving. Well, he sure did like to fondle that flag in his pocket.

Suppose I wrote a post called, "philosophy as a fried egg". Would that be interesting?

Again not well thought out on my part but
Philosophy seem a search for truths using reason
and
Myth seems like a search for meaning using symbols
Not that they are not compatible on some levels.

Are you talking about a penis?

The more I read about Plato and Pythagoras, the more obvious that philosophy is founded on religion. I note how much numerology was in the cradle of philosophy. Also we find more belief in the afterlife than one might have expected. Does philosophy sell itself as a thinking man's religion? Does the product work?

Is there an anti-philosophy that wears philosophy's uniform? Has ironism become a myth-buster of traditional philosophical myths in the name of the great modern myth of objective-reality-as-the-only god worth-knowing?

Taking "myth" in sense of story, I would say that stories abound in philosophy. For instance, some linguistic philosophers tell us the story that we were/are bewitched by language. The positivist told us a similar story, that metaphysics was a silly thing that an inferior sort of mind used to play with. They were heroes in this story of course, for they came along to slay the dragon of such obscurity and silliness. Has their ever been a philosophical movement without a telos? Has there ever been a philosophical movement that wasn't associated with some moral ideal?

They have offered us sublimity, clarity, worldly power, freedom. purpose, etc. I wonder if humans can be without telos. We can live by the myth (story) that man by freeing himself from myth becomes a superior being. We can suggest a counter-myth, that man is a being that is capable of repeatedly changing his guiding myth. I think that when Schopenhauer defined man as a metaphysical animal, he had something like this is mind.

Truth and falsity are themselves characters in various stories. The correspondence theory of truth is one such story. In the New Testament "Truth" serves as a metaphor for Christ, self-attributed. We tell ourselves stories that are sometimes stories about stories, and so on. Stories themselves can be characters in bigger stories.

The concept of "truth" was invented. It's an abstraction with a host of meanings.

Once there was a knight known as Sir Refutes A Lot. He rode his horse Logic into the Dark Forest of Philosophy. He came to slay the Dragon known as Metaphor. His horse Logic never liked the smell of Metaphor, for Logic was not a real horse but a mechanical horse, and metaphor smelled so disgustingly alive. (Sir Refutes A Lot did not create this horse, but stole it from Sir Abstract Poet, who was off making friends (breaking) a living horse known as Rhetoric.)
Sir Refutes A Lot at last came upon the Dragon Metaphor in the darkest patch of the forest and repeated his magic word: Fallacy !! Fallacy!! The Dragon Metaphor saw no threat to his territory,cracked a joke and flew away, to meet with a Lady Dragon known as Sophia.

Sir Refutes-A-Lot became more laconic as his good steed Logic began to rust. Metaphor was not merely a dragon but rather a Hydra constantly growing new heads, with new sets of eyes and different voices. What's more, Metaphor was resistant to the bright blade Fallacy, which could cut only the tautological. Sir Refutes-A-Lot was reduced to brief dismissive comments, which only stirred the Hydra to self-creation.