on myth
Posted in mircea eliade, mystery, mythology, philosophy, sacred, symbolism, tradition, traditionalism on June 2, 2008 | No Comments »
The hearer of myth, regardless of his level of culture, when he is listening to a myth, forgets, as it were, his particular situation and is projected into another world, into another universe which is no longer his poor little universe of every day. . . . The myths are true because they are sacred, [...]