In all traditional cultures, elders, seers, priests or leaders pass on inspiring stories from generation to generation, repeating them at certain times of the year or on special occasions. These narratives can be used to help people face the challenges of life, by unconsciously setting in motion socioreligious transformations that encourage complete fidelity to inalterable values. While traditional communities do not use the term, cultural anthropologists and scholars in religious studies refer to such stories as “myths,” not in the sense of false or invented accounts, but as narratives that serve a vital role in the life of the communities which use them. According to these scholars, mythological creations involve dramatizations of exemplary figures (deities, giants, heroes, glorified ancestors), and often address basic questions such as the distant origins of a community, its general equilibrium and its hope to be delivered from the miseries of this life. Mythical discourse can also be analyzed as a combination of images, symbols, characters, performances and motifs, which together serve as a means of delivering a message.