Page "Mircea Eliade" Paragraph 64

Eliade notes that, in traditional societies, myth represents the absolute truth about primordial time.

According to the myths, this was the time when the Sacred first appeared, establishing the world's structure — myths claim to describe the primordial events that made society and the natural world be that which they are.

Eliade argues that all myths are, in that sense, origin myths: " myth, then, is always an account of a creation ".