Contemplation is supposed to lead to mystical insight. An example of the Eastern Mandala is the Kalachakra made of sand by the Tibetan monks. An example of a Western Mandala are the rosace windows in cathedrals such as Notre Dame, Paris. A Dominican laybrother born in Lima Peru and a contemporary and friend of Rose of Lima. The time keepers of South America have been keeping time according to their reckoning for centuries.
Mythic images are present deep in the unconscious.
Thus myths are the expression of the Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious and Mythology is the collected myths of a culture. A system that uses numbers and also applies numbers to the letters of the alphabet. The resultant analysis has great symbolic meaning. Meaning something or someone who has the ability to foretell. There can be some very interesting concepts which were once only available through verbal transmission which are now being presented.