Its sacred narratives relate physicality and idea, and provide a known context for an unknown world. Myths create culture, provide ethical models, individuate personality, give definition to the spirit and explain the world and its origins. Mythology is communicated by visual image, music and the spoken word. It denotes a narrative point of view and a particular quality of comprehension. The sacred narratives of mythology are catalysts for a kind of knowledge that cannot be understood through discursive logic alone.
Mythology is both convention and ontological ground.
The written narrative by itself is not the myth, but can be integral to the cultural experience that is. Peak experiences instill a sense of truth to the narratives of active cultural mythologies. The narratives of classical mythology are the shed skins of a transitional ego. Their absurd motifs are no longer believable. The narratives are no longer sacred.