There are many types of myths. However, some myths such as the Christian myth are easily accepted as fact, while other later myths such as king author, Beowulf, and finally culminating in Tolkien are more easily seen to be fiction. Where to place the Greek myths? Myths can be real, but it only makes sense that over time, a group of people would add made up stories on top of it.
Greek Mythology
Along Eliade lines, the mythology of the Hittites and Canaanites is rooted in crop cycles- making their mythology fact, or at least potentially fact. What happened is over the course of years the cultures would observe variations in crop cycle patterns and other phenomenon and they would infer from this the interference of gods from an outside source. However, once you get to Greek mythology the myths become much more elaborate and deal with historical phenomenon and so forth. What in crop cycles could possibly be meant by the battle with the typhon or the Iliad, for example? These stories are more elaborate and cannot be easily related to crop cycles. Thus, it can be seen that the Greeks really made the first steps in the direction of fiction. Greek mythology is thus really a very interesting mix of fact and fiction and blurs the line between fact and fiction. Some of it may be true and may not be true. Some of the myths can be seen as rooted in crop cycles and other parts such as the dialogs of Zeus and his wife, the Iliad, and the battle with the typhon seems to have nothing to do with crop cycles. Perhaps they were recalling the past and doing so in a correct or incorrect manner.
Yuga periods and the scientific method
On the other hand, Christian mythology seems to be more rooted in fact. The events of the bible have more likelihood to be real historical phenomenon. Using the scientific method introduced by the Italian humanists, the bones of the Titans, for example, have never been found. Nothing in the Bible deals with bones of giants, which have never been found. The events involving esoteric phenomenon have been documented and the events of Moses and Abraham could plausibly have happened. In addition, the Gods of the Romans are more centered in processes as well. This makes the Italians and the Greeks two very different types of people, one being more rooted in fact, and the other being more rooted in fiction. Both are southern European but one is more rooted in fact and the other is more rooted in fiction.
The Greeks have a way out in that the Greek philosophers made the suggestion that the titans aren’t actually made of bones they are made of water and fire and so forth, so the previous yuga periods as documented by the Greeks could really have happened as Evola suggests. But along Eliade lines as initiated by the scientific method instantiated by the Italian humanists, the previous yuga periods probably were milder than documented in Greek texts.
Idealism Studies 