Together with the symbol, myth and rite unfold the forms of the story and the ritual action. This book concludes the path with which Julien Ries outlines the fundamental elements of religious anthropology as an area of knowledge. To find the traces that homo religiosus has left in history, it is necessary to understand the ways in which humanity's tension towards the sacred is expressed: first of all, mythical tales and ritual practices. The first part of the volume is dedicated to the analysis of the myth, understood as an "important and permanent constant of the sacred". Ries traces the different expressions of mythical thought in civilizations and cultures, starting from prehistoric times. The history of myth theories, from antiquity to the present day, is therefore accurately reconstructed, with particular attention to psychoanalytic and structuralist perspectives and the theological debate. The ways in which the myth carries out its function in religious anthropology are finally shown through the analysis of some types of mythical narrative: the myths of the foundation of the cosmos and those concerning the fall of man, but also some distorted modern myths used to justify the exercise of violence. In reality, however, myth, rite and sacred are inseparable. This is why the second part of the volume analyzes the rite in the life of homo religiosus, defining its characteristics, similarly to what happened for the myth, in a chronological path that starts from prehistory.