Mythology provides a greater context for our personal dramas, rites of passage for young people becoming members of their tribe or community, and guidance through life events based on the collective experience of those who have gone before us. While modern society promotes faster and more widespread communication, technology, and information, the study of mythology has been lost in the shuffle. For those of us that rejected our parents' conventions and rituals (they were rendered incomprehensible to us by the scientific --industrial -- atomic age) we must nonetheless admit that living without a functional mythos has added to the chaos of the modern world.