#mircea eliade

[noosphe-re]

A whole volume could well be written on the myths of modern man, on the mythologies camouflaged in the plays that he enjoys, in the books that he reads. The cinema, that "dream factory," takes over and employs countless mythical motifs—the fight between hero and monster, initiatory combats and ordeals, paradigmatic figures and images (the maiden, the hero, the paradisal landscape, hell, and so on). Even reading includes a mythological function, not only because it replaces the recitation of myths in archaic societies and the oral literature that still lives in the rural communities of Europe, but particularly because, through reading, the modern man succeeds in obtaining an "escape from time" comparable to the "emergence from time" effected by myths. Whether modern man "kills" time with a detective story or enters such a foreign temporal universe as is represented by any novel, reading projects him out of his personal duration and incorporates him into other rhythms, makes him live in another "history."

Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion

[castilestateofmind]

"Whatever the inward darkness may have been to which the shamans of those caves descended in their trances, the same must lie within ourselves, nightly visited in sleep".

-Joseph Campbell.

[yorgunherakles]

gülümsemesi hep aynı kalıyor. maskesi de..

mircea eliade - matmazel christina

[entheognosis]

The majority of the 'irreligious' still behave religiously, even though they are not aware of the fact. . . . [T]he modern man who feels and claims that he is nonreligious still retains a large stock of camouflaged myths and degenerated rituals.

Mircea Eliade

[andreeapantea]

„Dezvaţă-te să respecţi faţada până ce n-ai văzut interiorul.” - Tudor Arghezi

[gentle--man]

"Asta n-o vor înțelege ei niciodată: că nu ești dator să ajungi ceva, că nu trebuie să parvii nicăieri, că ceea ce importă în primul rând este să fii tu și să poți rămâne tu însuți în orice împrejurare a vieții."

— Mircea Eliade ( Întoarcerea din rai)

[mioritic]

The editorial board of Cuvântul newspaper in 1933, amongst whom I recognize:

Nae Ionescu (front centre), Dem Theodorescu (two to the right of him), Perpessicius (second from the left, first row), Mircea Eliade (back centre, with glasses, facing forward), Mihail Sebastian (two right of him, in cardigan and jacket), Mama Lola (aka Lola Ionescu-Marița, to the left of Nae), Octavian Onicescu (to the left of Lola), Titu Devechi (to the right of Nae), and two rather humorous pasted-in faces.

in Cuvântul, 6 November 1933

[survivethejive]

Many of the myths are concerned with the conception of a journey to the Other World, through the cold and darkness that acted as a barrier. The rich symbolism of roads and bridges, dark holes and caves leading to the underworld, the open burial mound, the journey through the air in bird form, all this emphasizes the belief in a passage between the worlds both for men and other beings…The underworld, either below the earth or the waves, is the abode of darkness and death, threatening always to destroy the ordered world of light and overrun the inhabited earth. Yet at the same time it is the place from which new life comes, and to which the gods may look for their brides. We are reminded from time to time in the myths that the seemingly dead earth sends up shoots in spring, that wisdom may come from the sea depths, and that the characteristics of dead men appear again in m their children's children. Finally in this picture of gods and monsters, we find the idea of the continual re-enactment, l'éternel retour, as Mircea Eliade calls it. The gods themselves were doomed to fall before the powers of darkness, and heaven and earth to pass away. But re birth must follow destruction, and a newly cleansed earth and heaven emerge from the sea and the flames. The sons of the gods and the survivors of mankind would again people earth and heaven, new dwellings arise in Asgard, and green fields once more yield their harvest on middle earth.

Hilda Ellis Davidson ‘Gods and Myths of Northern Europe’

[flaviamsstuff]

😌

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Kali

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“The syndrome of kali yuga is marked by the fact that it is the only age in which property alone confers social rank; wealth becomes the only motive of virtues, passion and lust the only bonds between the married, falsehood and deception the first condition of success in life, sexuality the sole means of enjoyment, while external, merely ritualstic religion is confused with spirituality. For several thousand years, be it understood, we have been living in kali yuga.” — Mircea Eliade, Images and Symbols. (via solnax)

[Thanks to "Alive On All Channels"]

[theidealistphilosophy]

To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior.

Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion.

[castilestateofmind]

"If you have ever come upon a grove that is thick with ancient trees rising far above the usual height and blocking the view of the sky with their cover of intertwining branches, the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot, and your wonder at the unbroken shade in the midst of open space will create in you the feeling of a divine presence".

-Seneca the Younger on the numina.

[gandurileandroginului]

This seems to me the most difficult thing to learn in the contemplation of the beloved: to know how to look into her eyes.

• Mircea Eliade, Wedding in Heaven

[yorgunherakles]

konuşurken bile yoruluyorum.

mircea eliade - matmazel christina

[entheognosis]

[a-h-mad-hish]

“Alchemy posed as a sacred science, whereas chemistry came into its own when substances had shed their sacred attributes.”

― Mircea Eliade, The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy