Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: Erfahrung, religiöse; primitive Gesellschaften

Kurzinhalt: Partizipation an der Ordnung durch Ritus und Mythos;

Textausschnitt: () The nature of this creation story or cosmogonic myth varies according to different cultures and times, but these culturally or historically 'variable meanings' are grounded in a transcultural structure of a cyclical passage from disorder or chaos to an ordered cosmos, or from death to rebirth.
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In other words, while performing these ceremonies, the people were collectively involved with the divine powers and forces that formed the being of all beings. Such a metaphysical myth, however, was not a cognitive or moral metaphysics, but a sacred metaphysics