• Belief in all knowledge already existing.
• Explaining phenomena through singular events (such as acts of a god/gods).
• Reality can only be fully understood by a special person with intuition (divine providence).
• It is the duty of the special people to educate others of the supernatural or divine.
• References to divine intervention.
  
• Satisfaction with the self being convinced.
• Mythical explanation can be everything if a person believes in it.
• It is always correct if believed in.
  
• Mythical explanation is far older than rational explanation.
• For example the Sumerian story of the king Gilgamesh.