To the hundreds of definitions of culture that exist today, I shall risk adding one more which coincides with the majority of accepted descriptions. All the latter say that culture is constituted by rituals, customs, opinions, dominant ideas and ways of life which characterize a certain people at a given period. If language is an essential element, history and geography are equally cultural factors. We summarize all that in the word myth, understood as symbolizing that which we believe at such a deep level that we are not even aware of. We question myth only when we already partly stand outside it: this is because it is precisely the myth which offers us the basis from which the question as question makes sense. For the myth gives us the horizon of intelligibility where we must situate any idea or any act of consciousness so that they may be held by our mind. Of course, there are particular myths and we must also distinguish between mythologies and myth, which is what makes possible a narration of myths, a science about myths more or less explicit groups of myths and the themes themselves as rational translations of what the myths themselves allow to appear as translatable All this should not be confused with the myth strictly speaking, that horizon which gives the condition of intelligibility of everything that is subsequently said.

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To the hundreds of definitions of culture that exist today, I shall risk adding one more which coincides with the majority of accepted descriptions. All the latter say that culture is constituted by rituals, customs, opinions, dominant ideas and ways of life which characterize a certain people at a given period. If language is an essential element, history and geography are equally cultural factors. We summarize all that in the word myth, understood as symbolizing that which we believe at such a deep level that we are not even aware of. We question myth only when we already partly stand outside it: this is because it is precisely the myth which offers us the basis from which the question as question makes sense. For the myth gives us the horizon of intelligibility where we must situate any idea or any act of consciousness so that they may be held by our mind. Of course, there are particular myths and we must also distinguish between mythologies and myth, which is what makes possible a narration of myths, a science about myths more or less explicit groups of myths and the themes themselves as rational translations of what the myths themselves allow to appear as translatable All this should not be confused with the myth strictly speaking, that horizon which gives the condition of intelligibility of everything that is subsequently said.

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To the many definitions of culture, I shall add one more: culture is made up of rituals, customs, opinions, dominant ideas, and ways of life of a people at a certain time. Myth symbolizes deeply held beliefs that shape our understanding. It is through myth that we can question and make sense of our world.