1. To awake and maintain in the individual a sense of awe and gratitude in relation to the mystery dimension of the universe, not so that he lives in fear of it, but so that he recognizes that he participates in it, since the mystery of being is the mstery of his own deep being as well.
2. To Offer an image of the universe that will be in accord with the knowledge of the time, the sciences and the fields of action of the folk to whom the mythology is addressed.
3. To Validate, support and imprint the norms of a given specific moral order, that, namely, of the society in which the individual is to live.
4. To guide the individual stage by stage, in health, strength, and harmony of spirit, through the whole foreseeable course of a useful life.
