The power that myths have are influantial to our everyday life to help us as humans to determine our place in this world. Like Cambell I belive that we all have a primal and spiritual desire to be aware of who we are and live. Myths help us to evolve and to keep steady both our primal and spiritual instincts. Myths play a sinificant role in the personal and public life of each culture they serve a wide range of psychological and social functions. Myths, like the metaphors from which they are built are culturally based.
Myths are simply narrative elaborations of culutrally shared perceptions of reality.
By giving close attention to myths, we are able to understand the complex society of ancient cultures, and thus begin to discern the worldview and values of contemporary cultures. That is that myths have been used to teach and reenact what we as mammals already distinctively know. Myths are forever changing and so are cultures and their people. However the human conditions that we apply these myths and cultures to remain the same. Most myths and stories derive from something that actually happened.