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Myth according to Mircea Eliade: Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities (1957). Eliade:.
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Myth according to Mircea Eliade:Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities (1957)
Eliade: • (A myth) narrates a sacred history; that is, a transhuman revelation which took place at the dawn of the Great Time, in the holy time of the beginnings (in illo tempore). Being real and sacred, the myth becomes exemplary, and consequently repeatable, for it serves as a model, and by the same token as a justification, for all human actions.
Eliade (cont). • “In other words, a myth is a true history or what came to pass at the beginning of time, and one which provides the pattern for human behavior
Creation Stories / Myths • Origins • Cosmogony • Phenomenolology • Gender Roles • Social Mores (taboos) • Social Ritual • Cultural Hero Stories • Aspects of above • Historical Narratives • Migration • Trickster Stories • Marginalization, taboo, boundaries, special social roles
Two Varieties of Native American Creation Stories: • Emergence Story • Earth Diver Story
Zuni Story • Power of Four • Cosmogony (environment / land) • Repetition • Phenomenology • Ritual Practice • Migration • Social Mores