In modern times the descriptions of the military use of nagyka tend to be mythologized, and it the past the prime and predominant use was to drive horse.
The function of the poet may be to mythologize experience, but another function is to bring a capacity for insightincluding spiritual insightinto contact with the political conditions of existence.
When the cause of a disease is poorly understood, societies tend to mythologize the disease or use it as a metaphor or symbol of whatever that culture considers evil.