Mircea Eliade reflects on the connection between man and space, on man’s involvement in cosmic processes. Myth in modern society is not equivalent to myth in “traditional” society. Something from the previous mythological perception is lost irretrievably. Mircea Eliade is sure that myth is not subject to the flow of calendar time, it exists in a different time dimension, the dimension of the sacred.The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.