Mythology opens up the world so that it becomes transparent to something that is beyond speech, beyond words – in short, what we call transcendence.*
Joseph Campbell

Mythology is usually inseparable from ritual. Many myths make no sense outside the liturgical drama that bring them to life, and are incomprehensible in a profane setting.**
Karen Armstrong

Though not made of dragons, minotaurs, and odysseys,
Life is mythological in seeing beyond the appearance of
the ordinary or familiar, to
the wonder of life within and around us;
Our personal and collective myths quietly shape
our habits, practices, and systems of energy –
Though some will not understand,
Many are awakening to their hunger for myth.

*Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers’ The Power of Myth;
**Karen Armstrong’s A Short History of Myth.