According to Mircea Eliade, the Middle Ages witnessed " an upwelling of mythical thought " in which each social group had its own " mythological traditions ".

According to Mircea Eliade, one pervasive mythical theme associates heroes with the slaying of dragons, a theme which Eliade traces back to " the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a divine hero and a dragon.

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

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.

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

According to Eliade, these peoples felt a need to return to the Beginning at regular intervals, turning time into a circle.

According to Eliade, the coincidentia oppositorum ’ s appeal lies in " man's deep dissatisfaction with his actual situation, with what is called the human condition ".

According to Eliade, the Hebrews had a linear sense of time before being influenced by Zoroastrianism.

According to Eliade, most religions that accept the cyclic view of time also embrace it: they see it as a way to return to the sacred time.

According to Eliade, Yoga techniques aim at escaping the limitations of the body, allowing the soul ( atman ) to rise above maya and reach the Sacred ( nirvana, moksha ).

According to Eliade, the Cosmic Center is a necessary corollary to the division of reality into the Sacred and the profane.

According to Eliade, traditional societies place their known world at the Center because ( from their perspective ) their known world is the realm that obeys a recognizable order, and it therefore must be the realm in which the Sacred manifests itself ; the regions beyond the known world, which seem strange and foreign, must lie far from the Center, outside the order established by the Sacred.

According to Eliade, heavenly Supreme Beings are actually less common in more advanced cultures.

According to Eliade, one of the most common shamanistic themes is the shaman's supposed death and resurrection.

According to Eliade, this is one manifestation of the shaman's return to " the illud tempus described to us by the paradisiac myths ".

According to Eliade, the purpose of personalities is infinity: " consciously and gloriously bringing to waste, into as many skies as possible, continuously fulfilling and polishing oneself, seeking ascent and not circumference.

According to Eliade, traditional man feels that things " acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality ".

According to Eliade, " modern nonreligious man assumes a new existential situation ".

According to Eliade, Marxism " takes up and carries on one of the great eschatological myths of the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean world, namely: the redemptive part to be played by the Just ( the ' elect ', the ' anointed ', the ' innocent ', the ' missioners ', in our own days the proletariat ), whose sufferings are invoked to change the ontological status of the world.

According to Eliade, modern man displays " traces " of " mythological behavior " because he intensely needs sacred time and the eternal return.

According to Eliade, this " terror of history " becomes especially acute when violent and threatening historical events confront modern man — the mere fact that a terrible event has happened, that it is part of history, is of little comfort to those who suffer from it.

According to Eliade, Hindus thus escape the terror of history by refusing to see historical time as the true reality.

According to this view, it is not considered to be read as a prophecy of western political history or of an eschatological future.

According to Johannes Quasten, “ In his eschatological ideas Justin shares the views of the Chiliasts concerning the millennium .” He maintains a premillennial distinctive, namely that there would be two resurrections, one of believers before Jesus ' reign and then a general resurrection afterwards.

According to most scholars, Early Christianity was a Jewish eschatological faith.

According to Cynthia Stewart, during the Reformation, the Protestant reformers used " the founding myths of Christianity " to critique the church of their time.

According to Lorena Laura Stookey, many myths feature sacred mountains as " the sites of revelations ": " In myth, the ascent of the holy mountain is a spiritual journey, promising purification, insight, wisdom, or knowledge of the sacred ".

According to Sandra Frankiel, the records of " Jesus ' life and death, his acts and words " provide the " founding myths " of Christianity.

According to Hugh S. Pyper, the biblical " founding myths of the Exodus and the exile, read as stories in which a nation is forged by maintaining its ideological and racial purity in the face of an oppressive great power ", entered " the rhetoric of nationalism throughout European history ", especially in Protestant countries and smaller nations.

According to one theory, myths began as allegories for natural phenomena: Apollo represents the sun, Poseidon represents water, and so on.

According to another theory, myths began as allegories for philosophical or spiritual concepts: Athena represents wise judgment, Aphrodite represents desire, etc.

According to one of the various myths about him, he founded Ife and dispatched his sons and daughters to establish similar kingdoms in other parts of what is today known as Yorubaland.

According to earlier myths, the office of the oracle was initially possessed by the goddesses Themis and Phoebe, and the site was initially sacred to Gaia.

According to modern myths the chastity belt was used as an anti-temptation device during the Crusades.

According to Vietnamese myths the first Vietnamese peoples descended from the Dragon Lord Lạc Long Quân and the Immortal Fairy Âu Cơ.

According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses ), a Roman poet writing in 8 AD, who was noted for accuracy regarding the Greek myths, Medusa alone had serpents in her hair, and he explained that this was due to Athena ( Roman Minerva ) cursing her.

One of the primary myths initially believed by communities facing environmental injustice is that the government is “ on our side .” According to Luke W. Cole, this myth is shared more widely among white Americans than among minorities, probably because minorities have historically faced several levels of governmental injustice.

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.

According to Ellwood, the part of Eliade that felt attracted to the " freedom of new beginnings suggested by primal myths " is the same part that felt attracted to the Guard, with its almost mythological notion of a new beginning through a " national resurrection ".

According to some myths Meera's brother-in-law Vikramaditya, who later became king of Chittor, after Bhojraj's death, tried to harm Meera in many ways, such as:

According to the founding myths of Qin recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian by Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian, Feizi descended from the mythical Yellow Emperor and his grandson and successor Zhuanxu.

According to Korean and Japanese myths, a rabbit lives on the Moon making rice cakes ( Tteok-the Korean word for rice cakes in general, and mochi, a different type of a rice cake with red bean filling, in the Japanese myth ).

According to Rosenberg, " myths symbolize human experience and embody the spiritual values of a culture.

According to some versions of the myths about Shennong, he eventually died as a result of his researches into the properties of plants by experimenting upon his own body, after, in one of his tests, he ate the yellow flower of a weed that caused his intestines to rupture before he had time to swallow his antidotal tea: having thus given his life for humanity, he has since received special honor though his worship as the Medicine King.

According to the myths and legends of the people of Kauai, which lies to the southeast, Necker Island was the last known refuge for a race of mythical " little people " called the Menehune.

According to Samten Karmay, Gesar arose as the hero of a society still thinly permeated by Buddhism, and the earlier myths associate him with pre-Buddhist beliefs like the mountain cult.