Significant night in Islam, the night designated as the time the Koran was received, some traditions say the night when the angels were created. I recall walking through the Muslim side of Mostar on this night last year--very festive and meaningful. Quite powerful as well.
By the tradition, the one who received the Koran was asked on what night he received it, and as he was going to answer, saw two people fighting, and was caused to forget the exact date. (Let those with ears to hear, hear.)
These stories, remember, exist first as ideas. When golden plates were found in upstate New York, inaugurating a new religion, with its texts resembling the apocrypha turning up in archeological finds and rites closely resembling those of the fraternal lodges, the first significance of the event was this: the true nature of the object, in itself, is such that it would be found buried in the earth, and written on golden plates. As an ordinary empirical description gives meaning in ordinary ways to the world, a religious belief sometimes gives meaning to the spiritual aspects of the experience. The insistence of the modern fundamentalists that a religious belief must be true in the ordinary sense is perhaps to distinguish their own religion, which consists precisely of events with ordinary meanings. Someone with a rich array of polytheistic narratives would understand that the value of these narratives wasn't in saying that a certain thing was the case at a certain point in time. Contrastingly, if the ordinary description of events is not true in the Christian narratives, then the faith has been in vain. And this is a living balance -- mythology-based meaning tends to be associated with any culture of religion. Hence the need for simplicity.
And yet, it must not silence the imagination. Christianity isn't a religion of Bollandism and such, but Bollandism and such helps to keep the mind focused on its essential work. Which is somehow both spiritual and ordinary. Ordinary can include many things. If you believe in angels, angels are ordinary, however rarely encountered.
"It is required that you do awake your faith."