Manifest nationalistic views and religious intolerance

Common collective myths are beliefs expressed in the formula "We good, they bad": so manifest nationalistic views and religious intolerance, "the war of the sexes", the stage performance of "teenage rebellion." Civilizational myth of Western culture (both Christian and Islamic) is a representation of his religious knowledge as "the beacon of truth" for other unenlightened peoples. In the last three centuries this Messianic myth has mutated into the idea of scientific education and the promotion of democracy of backward countries and peoples.

Common individual myths at the moment, we may call beliefs about fatalism (all destined, fated) and its polar extremes — individualism (the fate a man makes himself). It is noteworthy that the polarity of the individual in these provisions are entered when the collective religious beliefs of particular have lost interest in this issue or disagreed. In addition, each individual carries a unique compendium of various myths, various aspects of collective beliefs, or typical representations, creating your own unique mythological picture of the world.

In the narrow sense of the word "their myths" we might call some "important story" and "meaningful images", whose existence principally to one man, his family, society, nation and civilization. So the eternal symbol is the image of the Mother, and significant and related stories will be something to match, but something different in different cultures and in different individual stories. How different the Christian virgin Mary, the Greek fertility goddess Demeter and goddess of the Norse Wild Hunt Frigga, but all of them had experienced the death of their children and mourned them. And for many women, their families, generic stories of this experience familiar and significant.

Consciously selected myths (religion, adopted in Mature age, political views, etc.) can be as a result of existential experience and an adherence to certain collective trends. Existential experience may lead to an entry in the myth (and it may itself be a reservoir of such experiences of many people) and conscious and conscious belief in anything.