Myths are integrated with rituals, which in turn make us experience time and our bodies in a distinctive way, marking the rhythms of the season with holidays, and imposing communal, soothing rhythms on the body through dance and rocking. Myth-centered societies engage the senses often with a communal meal that knits our bodies together through the shared practices of talking, singing, and eating. Rituals take us out of time to what the Romanian comparative religionist and fantasy writer Mircea Eliade calls illo tempore.
