We used to see mind as a mirror of some God-given reality that can be best described in simple, nonmetaphorical terms, language that more closely reflects underlying truths about the world. The traditional view of mind is inappropriate because human cognition seems to be fundamentally shaped by various poetic or figurative processes. In The Poetics of Mind, Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. claims that metaphor, metonymy, irony and other tropes are not linguistic distortions of literal mental thought but constitute basic schemes by which people conceptualize their experience and the external world. Since every mental construct reflects an adaptation of the mind to the world, the language that expresses these constructs attests to the continuous process of poetic thinking. The above-mentioned book1 is construed as an argument for the thesis of the poeic structure of mind and makes us admit that our understanding of most language, whether it is consciously identified as literal or figurative, is very much constrained by the poetic structure of mind. Chapter 4 explores the ubiquity of metaphor in thought and language. Contrary to the accepted notion that metaphor requires a special intellectual talent or is used in special rhetorical situations, metaphor is found in virtually all aspects of our everyday thinking and speech. Among other ways metaphor is constitutive of everyday communication, Gibbs explores more specialized forms of artistic, legal, religious, and cultural experience. This paper aims to bring forth the power metaphor has in expressing via mythology the relationship between the known and the unknown both in the external world and in our inner experience.