Mircea Eliade

unpredictable than the Indus gods, as seen when Ea told Utnapishtim of the great flood: Man of Shuruppak, son of Ubar-Tutu, Tear down (this) house, build a ship! Give up possessions, seek thou life. Despise property and keep the soul alive (Mircea Eliade "From Primitives to Zen": Myths of the Flood). This good impression of the gods does not last, as, when Marduk slays Tiamat, he uses her to create man, saying, "I will establish a savage: "Man" shall be his name./Verily, savage-man I…

society, religion is a fundamental aspect in any culture. It is religion that you look towards for spiritual advice when all else fails, especially in a time of dire circumstances. Mircea Eliade noted this concept of religion, a sacred model of life orientation, in The Sacred and Profane. Theorizing the origins of religion, Eliade makes connections to religious man and the ordered existence of religious man’s universe(the cosmos). Eliade’s ideas coincide with Hmong culture, a society influenced…

Myths and Religion Introduction The start of the existence of Earth and all the living and non-living life is formed into a variety of stories from different groups across the world. Many constantly wonder of the origins of how people came to be and the purposes that individuals hold. Paul Tillich, a Lutheran theologian, believed that secular and religious man are both deeply rooted in religion through ultimate concern and it is in the depth of the spiritual life that it provides substance,…

through the current and future lives of the members participating within them. What does each event or custom within a religion represent for each of its followers? Does each transition in life represent more than just, what its title indicates? As Mircea Eliade points out within his book Patterns in Comparative Religion, “Every ritual has the character of happening now, at this very moment. The time of the event that the ritual commemorates or re-enacts is made present, “re-presented”…

Mircea Eliade’s theory describes religion as a “paradigmatic solution for every existential crisis”. The theory has many tools, including the concepts of therapeutic myth, the “twofold plane”, and the contrast of sacred and profane, all of which allow phenomenologists to disseminate and interpret religions. Using the tools of the theory to analyze the birth of Ntxawm’s first child and Hmong religion, I argue that the theory is useful and effective in helping us understand the Hmong traditions.…

external force which commands him to “go the distance” and “ease his [father’s] pain.” In order to go the distance, he had the experience the sacred, corresponding to Eliade’s definition of religion in The Quest, “to denote the experience of the sacred” (Eliade, The Quest, preface, n.p). Towards the end of the film, ray’s daughter falls from a bleacher, and immediately, Ray and his wife are filled with fear, until the deceased doctor, initially disguised as a young man, Dr. Graham steps out of…

of the religious rituals. The significance of it may differ from one religion to another. Its two qualities are being the source of life, and instrumentality of washing and cleaning. These underlie its place in every culture and faith. According to Eliade, water has more or less the same function in the various cultures of the world In cosmogony, in myth, ritual and iconography, water fills the same function in whatever type of cultural pattern we find it; it precedes all forms and upholds all…

the cosmogonic myth serve as an archetypal model for all creations? How does living in a world formed by the creation story, affect the lives of the people living within it? Mircea Eliade posed these questions within his statement, “The cosmogonic myth (creation story) serves as an archetypal model for all creations” (Eliade #). Each cosmogonic myth grows from an original model in which it separates the sacred from the profane, to reveal the significance of the sacred. No matter how significant…

In Herling Sigmund Freud’s theory was on wish fulfillment, mental assets and Oedipus complex. Oedipus complex was the idea that the son was going to kill the father and take over their position and will eventually be greater than them. In the myth above we notice that when the moles the children of Azuela and sapphire were imprisoned in the underworld, they began conspiring to take over the powers from the gods. Sigmund Freud further went ahead to talk about the projection of gods as ambivalence…

out is greater tan your fear. The momento you opened the window a butterfly burst into your room, and talked to you. “The savior is coming,” it says “to save the sinners from eternal flames.” What you just experienced is a hierophany, defined by Mircea Eliade…