From rock art to our days, the myth carries, thanks to its symbolic language, a truthful message concerning the human condition, the place of man in the universe and the mystery of life and death. The volume, edited by Julien Ries, hosts the contributions of scholars and members of very different cultures. In the various chapters we find a Navajo scholar, Trudy Griffin-Pierce, alongside Gianfranco Ravasi, the current minister of culture of the Vatican, the sinologist Christine Kontler and Homer scholar Paul Wathelet. For the Hindu world Michel Delahoutre, for the pre-Columbian Americas Davide Domenici, for sub-Saharan Africa Ivan Bargna, for the myth of Demeter Dario M. Cosi, for the myths of ancient Rome Natale Spineto, and for the puns and myths of ancient Egypt Michel Malaise. But the myth is also present in prehistory, and the curator of the volume Julien Ries deals directly with this theme. The myth is a constitutive story of a culture, of a widespread wisdom, of fundamental references for a population. The story is linked to images and symbols, for this reason the myth lends itself to being illustrated. The illustrations cover monuments, gods and symbols of antiquity, as well as scenes from the Kumbha Mela, the largest pilgrimage in the world held at the crossing of the Ganges with two other sacred rivers.