“The myth is the foundation of life, the scheme immemorial, the pious formula Into Which you play it When life flows out of the STI traits unconscious” – THOMAS MANN
The universal myths of Eden, the fall, or the flood, or the Greeks of Oedipus, Prometheus and Dionysus, or Americans, or the modern “noble savage” have since time immemorial Been created not only to Explain the origin the universe, But to account for our Existence, and the complex web Explain In Which We are Involved.
Ecological Movements today offer us new myths, and the Gaia hypothesis (Greek goddess of Earth, “the wide breast, eternal and unwavering supporter of all things, According To Hesiod) is a good reason to see the earth as a machine According To the current model, as a living organism But, self-regulated to be caring.
The legendary resort of Both Human Knowledge allows normal and Pathological, you Provided support to psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and Without Their contribution, Freud Would Have not unraveled the famous Oedipus complex. Faced with impoverished rationalism, and the dull life of the Consumer Society and technocratic myths we open a wide field of Knowledge About man and the universe.
Humans are mythmakers, mythopoeic Beings (Greek poiesis, creation), reveal the identity and Mythologies of the human soul. Indeed, “unless the difference in names, fabulous characters are identical, driven by the passions and the Same Same Instincts, invested with similar attributes, Even When Circumstances of environment and race Their faces printed variety.” (Joseph Campbell). Utnapishtim and Noah, Osiris and Quetzalcoatl, Hermes and Mercury, the Greek Zeus and the Manitou American, Scandinavian Olympus or Walhalla Hellenic, are Some Of The Most notable examples, in short, is not literally believe in Them, But give an existential interpretation.
Although we live in the “age of science,” draws our time-in Spite of Himself, myths, and as for Centuries It Was That said we are rational animals, we can say with equal right That Man is a mythical animal, or That is, the need-to-live. THUS, Without the myths of “progress” or “revolution” had not Been Given modern or revolutions, or transformations since the eighteenth century, a socio-political, Economic, religious and cultural Have shocked the world.
The myth is a narrative form of archaic character That speaks specifically of “once upon a time,” or “old days”. Malinowski Sees a symbolic expression in myth, a primitive form of Knowledge That Attempts to Explain the experimental reality. For Eliade, myth is a “role model” not only of the order of the world, But Especially of all rites and all the essential Activities of man. “The myth is a Derivation of worship, and Express Happened Mainly what is still happening and eleven o’clock: the saving event. For the primitive,” The Fact Is Present eleven vividly as a real event occurred behaved Itself That Communicate the essence in the past. “The myth speaks of the archetypal and what is valid at Any Time. A mythical form is inconceivable Without a reference to a ritual, Because thanks to it’s present life is Projected to” role models “of primitive times.” “The mythical universe is the universe’s own repetition in it, the creation is Conceived as a drama, the victory of gods over the Powers of the “beginning” is the conversion of chaos Into cosmos. ” Eliade. But victory is not safe, no need-to repeat the act of creation-through rituals, festivals, Preventing a return to chaos.
The Distinction Between myth and archaic narrative forms, particularly the fables and legends, an important element in WAS Achieving the required and specific concept of myth. For the romantic myth is a primitive revelation of time, is distinguished from the story and the legend That is based on historical object the “beginning” of history and of human life, and His strength Continues to Influence and manifest in it. The story does not Refer to a primitive age, But A timeless framework of Desires and Fears. The legend and myth is Considered as fact. ”
Myths are not a thing THEREFORE of the past But part of the basic are of all peoples Ideology, and “even the MOST modern and progressive nations Have a core of stories or play a role Ideas that similar to the old tribal That of Mythologies.” Without Them We Can not live, and are as NECESSARY as food and drink. Henco, the present studies on Them and Even The Most crass rationalism Has Been ignored.
Our cultural Entire framework is mythological, and this is the MOST wonderful work of human functions, the “cool feature” (Gilbert Durand), Which is the source of all human creation, and Reveals Himself as an original mark of the Spirit. “Thuso , not only Participate in the Development of Theoretical But an assistant consciousness of the action, even more, I have notes, “every culture instilled by education is a fantastic set of structures.” For Durand, the anthropological myth is the foundation on Which stands the historical significance. The story is According To him, “derived from the myth”, and the historian Applies to show how Humans Have Their innate behaviors arranged specific to the vicissitudes of the Geographical, climatic, or Technological Demographic, But It Must be preceded by the study of the matches and constant. (DURAND, Gilbert. The Anthropological Structures of the imaginary).
Also it notes That the phenomena of human Understanding is Given from the imaginary sets are the “big picture” Triactol and mythic narrative is the work of myth analysis, Which Involves the separation of networks “of images in a style or speech, gestures and Their crystallization and mythical figures. “The imaginary, the set of images Becomes Which is the capital of Homo sapiens Intended, is the great fundamental denominator WHERE They Are Located all human thought process.
The myth is the matrix from THEREFORE Which Have The Different forms arisen from the religious language and other language classes, all rational Discourse and sophisticated, waste use mythical elements. But while we Need myths, Must we rethink in the light of scientific discoveries and historical changes file as an age we live postmítica and Its Resolution Concerning the man Who would not be Man Without myths. The myth “is the Subjective Understanding speech, singular and concrete of a spirit world and the binds That Feels from the inside” (Knowledge Knowledge EDGAR .. Edit. Chair. Madrid, 1994. Pág.173) is a story That binds a series of symbols and imaginary, and history, or a mixture of both. Myths are not just the world’s origin, but “All That begs the question, curiosity, need, aspiration,” and Have to do With The story of a community, a people of a nation. The myths are “Liberating energy boosters and agents guiding the life of the same” (G. Bachelard). The myth is the MOST universal of Powers Because It Is The Only One Who Understands the universal analogy, the fundamental similarity exists That THROUGHOUT the universe.
As Noted by Levi Strauss, the richness of myth is lush, and retains full STI actuality, despite the Rationalists, it fills the gap That Can not complete reason, Especially regarding the fate and death. Macquarrie says seven characters of the myth:
1-Uses a dramatic language, ie the language of action, whether of people or supernatural Beings and Forces of Nature Conceived as animated form in primitive Given Mythologies and dreams, the abstract language and unlikable, related to specific situations. May as in the novels OCCUR or plays, and is Used To interpret the broad fields of human experience.
His language is 2-evocative, ie, Involves a cluster of Associations, for example, the sun and water, to Which We give a Purely functional, are rich in peoples’ daily lives, as the sun is not only good for lighting, heating , grow and Regulate the pace of life. Henco The Possibility of great Wealth and Interpretations.
3-It is immediate, ie not yet have it pass through the sieve of analytical thinking, That is, the mythical man does not ask STI Meaning. Primitive man Lived Immersed In Their myths still, “was in the middle of Their Sleep and HAD not yet Awakened to reflect.” This awakening Will Come With The Greek and philosophy, Plato But know harmoniously integrate Both speeches.
Then comes the 4-logical, does not mean it is absurd to That Say That Their logic is Different from the grounds, and presents events in a world of wonders and miracles.
5-In it are supernatural Beings and a series of numinous realities, ie Beyond the physical and literal.
6-The actions of Those Involved are in a remote space and time, Either at the Beginning of time, or in the distant future or the end of time.
7-The seventh and final feature is the Relationship with the community, and although a myth Can Be produced by an individual, “it Becomes myth Until It Has Been ADOPTED by the community, and have part in the constitution of social identity in question community . ”
In conclusion, “the myth speaks first of human Existence, Understanding of Himself and man have His own world.” If we want to re-mythologized Should Enrich, de-mythologized Merely not. THUS, in our time we are Witnessing the Dismantling of the myth of the “hero” faces aggressively male world, He Who Conquers Himself, His soul or interior, as Noted Assuming Ortiz Oses, anti-heroic side paradoxically WAS Traditionally hands of women, It’s About Overcoming the patriarchal and dualistic myth Dramatically Opposing “good versus evil, up against the bottom, the light from darkness, heaven Against hell, the diurnal to nocturnal, the heavenly face of the earth, the hero Against the dragon, or monster, God versus the devil. “Also I notice only if we face That These dualisms innovatively,” co-implying Radically Opposed, or relativizing anti-human ITS perverse logic “will be linked to the Benefit of the whole human being.