Orides Fontela (1940-1998) published five poetry books: Transposição (1969); Helianto (1973); Alba (1983); Rosácea (1986), and Teia (1996). She graduated in Philosophy from Universidade de São Paulo in 1972. The dense structure of oridian poems constructs, through dialogue with philosophy, one of the most fruitful characteristics of her production. Provided that, we intend to investigate a specific aspect of oridian poetry: the presence of myth. To do so, we will try to conceive about the recurrence of mythical themes that compose her work. In analysis of her Poesia Reunida (2015), we consider that such themes can be covered in four thematic complexes represented by the mythical figures of Aurora, Ananke, Kairós, and Eros. All those figures have a plural aspect in the western philosophical and cultural tradition. In the last chapter, we tried to explore her articles Sobre poesia e filosofia: um depoimento (2018) and Poética: uma – despretensiosa – minipoética (2019) searching the relations that her work establishes with the theories of myth by Roberto Calasso (absolute literature) and Ernst Cassirer (symbolic forms). Finally, in the attachments, we present a rare text about ethics and an unpublished poem found in her archives.