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the sacred and the profane Mircea Eliade - Coggle Diagram
the sacred and the profane
Mircea Eliade
sacred & profane
are two modes
of being in the world
depend on
different position
man has about the
cosmos
distinguishing between
religious man
experiences
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is terrified by
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thirsts
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can live only
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non religious man
desacralizes the world
specific charactreristics
of the religious experience
reporting differences
between
sacred experience
revelation of a
sacred place
allows to acquire orientation
in the chaos of homogeneity
sacred places
present some limits
that are held by
rituals
sacrifices
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sacred place
through direct revelation
smt sacred shows in the world
in both cases
a sacred place
is found by the help
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settling in a territory is
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revealed by animals
profane experience
maintains the
homogeneity
relativity of space
recognizes priviledged places
which present a unique quality
= holy places
of his private universe
comparisons
between
religious facts
related to
different cultures
creation of the world
victory of the gods
over the forcess of darkness
blood-drenched chosmogonies
gods slaied a marine monster
necessity of bloody or symbolic sacrifices
ceation happened
through the salying of a giant
building sacrifices depend
various types
of cosmogonies
ritually trasforming
the dwelling into cosmos
2 methods
assimilating it to the cosmo
by projecting
4 horizons from a central poin
repeating
through a ritual of construction
the pragmatic act of the gods
in all traditional
cultures
the habitation
posseses a sacred aspect
because it reflects the world
every construction
and every inauguation
of a new dwelling
is equivalent
to a new beginning
of life
and every beginning
repeats the primordial biginning
constructions of
basilica
are concived
as imitation of the
Heavenly Jerusalem
cathedral
temple
earthly reproduction of the transcendent model
as a copy of a celestial work
the temple
countinuosly
resanctifies the world
the world is
countinually purified
by the sanctity
of the sanctuary
Time
Scared time
Time of festivals
Reactualization of time of the gods
Sanctification of cosmic time
Through myths
A reality came into existence
restoratorion of
sacred dimension of
existence
not hisotrically
no chronologically calculated
life
Reactualization of sacred event
Created and sanctified by gods
Period of their gesta
becoming contemporary
with the gods
even if
always invisibile
divine of semidivine
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Indefinitly
Recoverable
Repeatable
Not found in the historical past
Because
Transfigured
By the presence
Of the gods
Religious man
Reactualizes
Cosmogony
When he creates smt
In need of luck/fortune
= sacred Time
Symbolic rebirth
Profane time
danger to
forget what's important
acceptance of history
creative freedom
Religious man
Can pass from
Ordinary temporal duration
Monotonous time of his work
Sacred time
Circular time
Has a beginning and
An end
Can be reborn
New year
World = created anew
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Reactualization of
the cosmogony
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Man created
anew
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Christianity
Affirms historicity of Jesus
Archaic man
Events narrated in myths
No historical records
No historical time
Before the cosmos existed
There was no S. T.
Hermann Usener
Religious man
Archaic cultures
World renewed annually
This symbolism
Is indicated
Architectonic structure of
Sanctuaries