We see mythology when its social functioning was serving four functions:

The first function is what I would call the mystical function.

It opens up a realisation of the mystical dimensions that behind the surface phenomenology of the world.

There is a transcendent mystery source and that’s the source also within yourself.

The second function has to do with the image of the world what I would call a cosmological function.

This changes radically from time to time.

Very early hunting, planting and gathering society had a relatively small horizon and science was that of what was visible.

In terms of the visible world.The sun rose it went down.The moon rose ,it went down.

With Kopernikus,this all changed.The sun is not rising,it’s Earth that is twisting .The cosmology and science has totally changed.

The third function of mythology is to validate and maintain a curtain, Social order , here and now this specific society.

The fourth function is to carry the individual through various stages and crises of life.that is to help a person grasp the unfolding of life with integrity.