The burning of Holika is the most common mythological explanation for the celebration of Holi.

Many thinkers began to represent the universe through mechanical models, abandoning earlier mythological explanations.

The Presocratic philosophers rejected traditional mythological explanations of the phenomena they saw around them in favor of more rational explanations.

As the first philosophers, they emphasized the rational unity of things, and rejected mythological explanations of the world.

Those philosophers were also influential, and eventually Thales' rejection of mythological explanations became an essential idea for science.

Thales was the first to refuse to accept supernatural, religious or mythological explanations for natural phenomena, proclaiming that every event had a natural cause.

It is unknown when this happened and therefore the cleaving of the rock has attracted mythological explanations.

They were distinguished from "non-philosophers" insofar as they rejected mythological explanations in favor of reasoned discourse.

Another reason why Satan and demons are more usually rejected by modern scholarship is because they are seen as mythological explanations of realities now explainable by science.

But such an explanation is surely ridiculous to the modern reader forced to realize how far he stands from an age when mythological explanations were permissible.