One of the most common types of such myths speaks of a primordial time in which death did not exist and explains that it arose as the result of an error, as a punishment, or simply because the creator decided the earth would get too crowded otherwise.
They can transport you back to a primordial time when magical creatures walked the planet, stimulating the imagination and opening up a place of childlike awe.This is the space from which the Bolala was spawned, an ancient mythic spirit that acts as the guardian of all things wild - the forests, rivers, and wildlife of the Southern United States.
Then there's the shouty fan, who hails from a more primordial time.
Rather, sacred history is like a hallowed tree whose roots dig deep into primordial time and whose branches weave in and out of genuine history with little concern for the boundaries of space and time.
They provide accounts of the primordial time; describe the transformations that explain the nature of human existence in the world; and help humans return to the sacred origins, overcome sin, and become renewed by participating in the primordial sacred fullness of being.
The latter essentially comes from biblical religion; the former viewpoint tends to treat time cyclically and mythically referring to foundational events, such as the creation, the beginning of the human race, and the Fall of man, on to illud tempus (the sacred primordial time), which is re-enacted in the repetitions of the ritual and in the retelling of the myth.
In both instances, the change is widely believed to take place through the worshipper's return, by means of the acts of worship, to primordial time (as in early or tribal religions), to the realm in which unity and blessedness obtain.
Since astrology could claim a record of observing planets and stars over several millennia, it had stood the test of primordial time as its experience accumulated.
Others explain iconographic features, such as the Hindu narrative ascribing the blue neck of the god Shiva to a poison he drank in primordial times.
He described politics as an activity involving theater, music and even religious rites since "primordial" times, and, with a dash of humor, said about his field, "Just as psychoanalysts help people to have sex without guilt, we help people to like politics without remorse".
Besides being evidence that there weren't enough women, or girls, making movies in Griffith's primordial times, the aphorism hints at a greater truth (putting aside, of course, the fact that one single take in a film is called a shot).
