Cultural myths, like the unique story history we create of our life, become real not because they did or did not happen, but because they convey a symbolic meaning that is concerned with the “transformation of consciousness,” as teachers Kaivalya and van der Kooij state in the book Myths of the Asanas. They write, “Yoga and mythology scholar Mircea Eliade…notes that the language of myth does not argue, but simply presents…” They go on to write that, “the myths of yoga’s spiritual tradition have the power to change old patterns of behavior, providing us with enlightened insight that brings us closer to who we really are. And this is precisely what the yoga tradition is concerned with.”