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Why Myths are immortal ?
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To help understanding the magic of myths, you will find - below - a quotation of a famous writer :
 Mircea Eliade, ![[ : Gallimard, collection folio essais, 1989, pages 16 and17]](/media/gifs/livre.gif) Aspects du mythe
| | Personally, the definition which seems to me the least imperfect, because broadest, is the following one: the myth tells a crowned history; it reports an event which took place in paramount time, the fabulous time of the "beginnings". In other words, the myth tells how, thanks to the exploits of the Supernatural Beings, a reality came to the existence, that it is total reality, Cosmos, or only one fragment: an island, a vegetable species, a human behavior, an institution. It is thus always the account of a "creation": it is brought back how something was produced, started to be. The myth speaks only about what really arrived, about what fully appeared. The characters of the myths are Supernatural Beings. They are known especially by what they did in prestigious times of the "beginnings". The myths thus reveal their creative activity and reveal the sacrality (where simply "supernaturality") their works. All things considered, the myths describe various, and the sometimes dramatic ones, irruptions of crowned (or "supernatural") in the World. It is this irruption of crowned which melts really the World and which does it such as it is today. More still: it is following the interventions of the Supernatural Beings which the man is what it is today, a mortal, sexué and cultural being. |
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