"The myth warrants to the man that he is prepared to make has already been done, it helps to reject could conceive doubts about the outcome of your business. Why hesitate before a maritime expedition, when the legendary hero and has done a fabulous time? There is more to follow suit. Similarly, why be afraid to settle in unfamiliar territory and wild, when you know what to do? Enough simply to repeat the cosmogonic ritual and the unknown territory (= the "Chaos") becomes "Cosmos" is an imago mundi , a "room" ritually legitimized. The existence of a role model not slow at all the creative impulse. The legendary model is capable of unlimited expansion. Man of the societies in which the myth is a living thing lives in a "open", but "encrypted" and mysterious. The World "talk" to humans and to understand the language enough to know the myths and decoding the symbols ... The World is not an opaque mass of objects arbitrarily thrown together, but a living cosmos, articulate and meaningful. Ultimately, the World language is revealed as . "
Mircea Eliade, taken from Introduction to Greek mythology . Carlos García Gual. Alianza, Madrid, 2006, pg. 58.
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