The vitality and complexity of the tradition led me to present the culture of this Greek village not as a way of thinking that time has made obsolete, but as a way of seeing the world that has been honored by time, making it possess an undying prestige. This is why throughout the book, with few exceptions, I use the present tense. This way of thinking became the mainstay of the Greek people for over two millennia. It adapted to new philosophical movements and the constant vicissitudes of history with subtle changes in the ways in which the culture's inherent themes were expressed. But he always maintained the integrity and meaning of the subjects themselves. In anthropology, Charles Stewart has pointed to orthodox images of the heavenly and demonic worlds that have remained unchanged since the 4th century AD. to date (Stewart, Demons and the Devil). Similarly, a historian of late antiquity made the following comment on the book at hand: in the early Christian centuries, all these themes are present, but much more crude and conflicting, whereas as described here they seem to have been rounded, like pebbles in a ravines; and this has happened through the practice of an established Christianity, which has so often shown that it can balance and harmonize sharp contrasts. Even today, although this eternal understanding of the world faces radical challenges from globalization, technocracy, and secular assumptions, there are elements of these ancient understandings that continue and will continue to remain. Adam and Eve, as archetypes of man and woman, the figure of the Virgin Mary as Mother of all, still remain elements alive in the Greek imagination, and beyond the timeless association of some specific ways of thinking that have now "rounded like pebbles" in the Greek culture, the Church itself continues to provide enduring interpretations of the world, as influential as any other age.