Sentences with phrase «archaic myths»

It is part of the role of this Court to denounce this kind of language, unfortunately still used today, which not only perpetuates archaic myths and stereotypes about the nature of sexual assaults but also ignores the law.

The artist is like a shamanic puppet master that infuses American cartoons with the pathos of archaic myths and eerie semi-religious energy.

It's just old archaic myths, written thousands of years ago by ignorant, primitive people!

Modern, intelligent people are finally starting to reject the indoctrination from birth by society and are accepting science, logic, and reason instead of archaic myths.

Children of men pass down an ancient fable: «The power of the gods will be granted there...» Disciples of magic study an archaic myth: «The great mysteries shall be answered there...» Descendants of warriors recite their folklore: «The ultimate techniques can be mastered there...» Nomads of the plains exchange a fairy tale: «The lost treasures must be slumbering there...»

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Any large - scale human cooperation — whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe — is rooted in common myths that exist only in people's collective imagination.

For archaic man the only reality is the sacred reality of which he becomes a part through myth and ritual.

Peter L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy; Peter L. Berger, A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovering of the Supernatural (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1969); Mircea Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Reality (London: Harvill Press, 1960), 19; Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures, 107; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment, 156; Philip E. Slater, Microcosm: Structural, Pschological and Religious Evolution in Groups (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966).

Have we not learned in our century that the great poets are mythmakers or myth - transformers, that the forms of poetry are transmutations of archaic ritual forms, and that the poet symbol is an interiorization or a revalorization of the religious symbol?

As with any myth, new revelations are moulded into the archaic system, in this case the Bible / God the Creator.

It is a spirituality in which myth and archaic man belong to each other.

If we take account of the true nature and function of the myth, Christianity does not appear to have surpassed the mode of being of archaic man; but then it could not....

Eliade's deep interest in myths, symbols and in archaic and Indian (oriental) religions will have paramount significance, first of all, for opening up religious dimension of the NT Christianity.

The characteristic orientation of the myths and rituals of archaic religion, he notes, is toward a primordial time and a primordial reality.

Never, as modern human beings, can we experience the one - possibility consciousness of a primitive or archaic culture in which myth quite simply is the received construction of the world.

The myths and legends of archaic humanity mirrored a common experience of a people, a collective anxiety or aspiration, a shared encounter with destiny.

The Wagnerian ideal of erotic heroism inflames ordinary men and women with the desire to live as though such love were possible even for themselves; for myth does not represent some archaic glory but is written «in the eternal present.»

I'm giving up all hope that people will eventually have some intelligence and stop believing in archaic old myths and fairytales.

Myth fixates the Irish director, but he sees the universal in the archaic,...