Since before the dawn of civilization as we know it, humanity has formed myths and legends to explain the natural world around us. Whether it is Zeus and Hera or Izanami-no-Mikoto and Izanagi-no-mikoto, every civilization and culture on this world has its own myth. However, the age of myth is waning as it is overshadowed by fundamental religion and empirical science in this modern age. The word myth has come to connote a blatant falsehood; however, this was not always the case. Our myths reflect both the society and the values ​​of the culture from which they come. We have also reflected our inner psyche, conscious and unconscious, in the fabric of our myths. This reflection allows us to better understand ourselves and other cultures. Over the eons of humanity's existence, myths explain natural phenomena, and cultural legends of the epic hero have reflected the foundations and inner turmoil of the human psyche. Over the last few centuries, the definition of myth has decayed into a word synonymous with falsehood. and lies. This idea that myths are completely false and therefore useless is quite modern. To combat the rise of empirical science in the 1900s, theologians gave birth to the idea of ​​a foundational, entirely literal religion to combat ideas that were not perfectly in line with the tenets of the religion (May 24). This was the death blow to the idea of ​​metaphysical myth, already wounded by thousands of years of denunciation as pagan or barbaric. The rise of empirical science also led to the decay of the meaning of myth. Science has been able to explain the natural world much better than myth ever could; however, the metaphysical aspect was missing. Because of these emerging ideologies, myths have...... middle of paper ......ng, Ph.D.. np 2002. Web. March 25, 2013.Drysdale, Jilian Miller. “The faces of the goddess”. Synchronicity. December 1999/Jan. 2000: 29-31. Renaissance gentlemen. Network. March 29, 2014.Freud, Sigmund. The future of an illusion. New York: Norton & Company Inc., 1961. Print.Henderson, Joseph. “Ancient myths and modern men”. Man and his symbols. Ed. Carlo Jung. New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1964. 104-158. Print.Jung, Carl. “Getting closer to the unconscious”. Man and his symbols. Ed. Carlo Jung. New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1964. 1-104. Kromholz, Susan Foster, and P. Kyle McCarter. "Because the myth endures." Johns Hopkins Journal. August 1990: 32-37. Gentlemen Problems Researcher. Web, 07 April 2104.May, Rollo. The cry of the myth. New York: Norton & Company, 1991. Print.Sels, Nadia. Myth, mind and metaphor: on the relationship between mythology and psychoanalysis. np 2011. Web. 25 March 2014.