The nucleus of all mythical religious tradition is the nobility and tragic fall of the hero who comes to grief through his own presumption and the guilt arising therefrom. That is the myth of humanity, ever recurring in the various levels of development involving man in his two aspects as a willing and a self-conscious individual. The hero myth shows man more as willing, the religious myth shows him more as an ethical individual. In relation to the portentous advance of the power of consciousness, the biblical myth of the fall has presented the human tragedy in its noblest form. Man, who advances like God in his omniscience, falls away from nature through consciousness, becomes unfortunate in that he loses his naïve unity with the unconscious, with nature.