Transformations of Myth Through Time [antikvár]

In the Beginrdng: Origins of Man and MythThe material of myth is the material of our life, the material of our body, and the material of our environment, and a living, vital mythology deals w^ith these in terms that are appropriate to the nature of know^ledge of the time.This woman with her baby is the basic image of mythology. The first experience of anybody is the mother's body. And what Le Debleu called participation mystique, mystic participation between the mother and child and the child and the mother, is the final happy land. The earth and the whole universe, as our mother, carries thisexperience into the larger sphere of adult experience. When one can feel oneself in relation to the universe in the same complete and natural way as that of the child with the mother, one is in complete harmony and tune with the universe. Getting into harmony and tune with the universe and staying there is the principal function of