Using the theory of the two modes of cognition, she traces the origins of myths in reflective cognition, while she considers rituals to arise from intuitive inferences and beliefs about the gods and human relationships with them. Therefore, her approach provides some new insights into the fusion between ancient Greek myths and rituals suggesting that rituals may have incorporated some reflective beliefs arising from wider conceptual framework of myths and narratives, but they were not restrained and did not strictly reenacted specific mythological episodes and narratives (Chapter
Using the theory of the two modes of cognition, she traces the origins of myths in reflective cognition, while she considers rituals to arise from intuitive inferences and beliefs about the gods and human relationships with them. Therefore, her approach provides some new insights into the fusion between ancient Greek myths and rituals suggesting that rituals may have incorporated some reflective beliefs arising from wider conceptual framework of myths and narratives, but they were not restrained and did not strictly reenacted specific mythological episodes and narratives (Chapter