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The Sacred and the Profane
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The Sacred and the Profane
A reflection on the works of mircea eliade
Ch 3: Sacred Nature
- Experience the "wholly other"
- Otto's ideas: Mysterium tremendum and the numinous
- opportunities for hierophony
Ch 2: Sacred time and myths
Imagery
The Sky
Remote god concept
Stones
Terra Mater
"The Earth Mother"
Water
Trees
Sun
2 Types: Sacred & Profane
- ordinary life & religious festivals
Stars
Moon
Joel Fletcher
Non-religous man: no sacred time
Ch 1: Sacred Space
Cyclical view of time
- New Year
Illud Tempus
Time of origins
Makes ordinary, historical time possible
Paradigmatic models
Desire to live close to the divine
Myths
Gives a model for ordinary life
Periodic retelling & rituals:
- Keep in touch with sacred reality
- Sanctify the world
Eternal Return
Cyclical, repetitive time
For Religious Man: Hope
- Continual connection to divine
For Developed Cultures: Terrifying
- stuck in a time loop
Judaism & Christianity: - abandon cyclical time
- manifestation of divine
Sacred vs. profane
Religious and non-religious see the world differently
Mircea Eliade
Partially sacred events, places
Cosmos and Chaos
"Our world" is the cosmos, anything else is chaotic space
Axis Mundi
imago mundi
Center of world, linking above, on, and under
A representation of the cosmos
points back towards axis mundi
Our world is "holy"
Cosmogony: the original divine at of creation of "our world"
Born March 13, 1907. In Bucharest, Romania.
Chaos and cosmos are connected
Romanian records have his Birthday on the 28th of February - since they didn't adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1924.
Education
Read extensively in Romanian, French, and German, and around 1924-25 he learned Italian and English
Studied at the University of Bucharest in the Philosophy Department.
He then studied abroad at the University of Calcutta in India, to universalize his view on philosophy.