It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.
Andrés Alfaroцитирует3 месяца назад
It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.
Andrés Alfaroцитирует3 месяца назад
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream.
noxonadцитирует11 дней назад
the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed
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Only birth can conquer death—the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new.
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Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream
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HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
noxonadцитирует9 дней назад
separation—initiation—return: which might be named the nuclear unit of the monomyth.
noxonadцитирует9 дней назад
the adventure of the hero normally follows the pattern of the nuclear unit above described: a separation from the world, a penetration to some source of power, and a life-enhancing return.
noxonadцитирует9 дней назад
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historical, macrocosmic triumph