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According to Mircea Eliade, many traditional societies have a cyclic sense of time, periodically reenacting mythical events.

Through this reenactment, these societies achieve an " eternal return " to the mythical age.

According to Eliade, Christianity retains a sense of cyclical time, through the ritual commemoration of Christ's life and the imitation of Christ's actions ; Eliade calls this sense of cyclical time a " mythical aspect " of Christianity.