The place of numbers in mythology is that of a certain numerical code, with which the world is described (or it can be the system of metadescription itself, that is described). Myth explains itself through numbers. In archaic traditions the numbers could have been used in situations marked as sacred or «cosmizing», as in our mythological situation. Thus, numbers become the image of the world and then, the tools of its periodical remanifestation in the cyclical scheme of evolution in order to overcome destructive tendencies. They are the tools of cosmogony or cyclical restoration of cosmic order. The cyclical scheme seems to be present in Celtic mythology (as an integral part of its manifestationalist doctrine).

Cosmogony or cyclical restoration of cosmic order in Irish myth is shown always as manifestation. The manifestationalist perspective is similar to a concept of «constant creation», because the world here is understood as an open system. The manifestation in myth could have been taken as an example of a ritual.

Objects in the mythological thinking are defined as operational («how was it done? how was it named? how has it happened? why? cid búaid? canas ro ainmniged?»). That is why the actual model of the world is inevitably connected with cosmological schemes and with the pseudo-historical tales, which are considered to be precedents, serving as a pattern to be re-enacted in the future just because the patterns of actions in these tales are set in Urzeit. Our mythological and pseudo-historical tale, combines in itself two aspects – diachronic (an account about idealised past) and synchronic (describing idealised present or sometimes future).