In 1922 T.S. Elliott depicted the spiritual disintegration of Western culture when he asked the question, "how was it possible to put down creative roots in what he called the "stony rubbish" of modernity where people had lost touch with the mythical underpinning of their culture?

We need myths that help us realise the importance of compassion, which is not always regarded as sufficiently productive or efficient in our pragmatic, rational world. We need myths that help us to create a spiritual attitude to see beyond our immediate requirements, and enable us to experience a transcendent value that challenges our selfishness, and help us venerate the earth as sacred once again, and simply using it as a "resource" What is sometimes forgotten is that we can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going on. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses.

The myth in the hands of a genius gives us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL.

Campbell, whom some would call a`mythologist', a"poet at heart" (1904­1987) has been regarded as one of the best interpreters of myth to late twentieth-century Americans saw the saving of the world not in "collective" institutions but in the transformation of individuals with the help of the power of myth. He experienced Myth as an eternal, not merely a primitive narrative. Nothing could supersede it because it is not about protoscientific explanation ( original science) but about the Human Condition, which in th last analysis is always expressed metaphorically, and always has to be spoken. For Campbell myth is indispensable. ( We need to recall that for Campbell, along with people such as C.G. Jung, believed the world of ancient myth contained resources that could be of immense help to people baffled by the ambiguities and superficiality of modern life.)

He sees/saw myth as a repository of the experiences and beliefs of mankind.