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Mirča Elijade: Struktura simbola

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Mircea Eliade: Metaphysics of the Moon

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"It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and resurrection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, prenatal existence, and life after death, followed by a rebirth of lunar type ('light coming out of darkness'); weaving, the symbol of the 'thread of life,' fate, temporality, and death; and yet others. In general most of the ideas of cycle, dualism, polarity, opposition, conflict, but also of reconciliation of contraries, of coincidentia oppositiorum, were either discovered or clarified by virtue of lunar symbolism.   We may even speak of a metaphysics of the moon, in the sense of a consistent system of 'truths' relating to the mode of being peculiar to living creatures, to everything in the cosmos that shares in life, that is, in becoming, growth and waning, death and resurrection. For we must not forget that what the moon reveals to religiou...

M. Elijade o svetom i profanom prostoru

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"Od brojnih iskustava Eliade, u skladu sa svojim generalnim opredeljenjima, izdvaja dva - iskustvo svetog i iskustvo profanog prostora. "Podsetimo da prvo iskustvo podrazumeva da ispoljavanje svetog prostora omogućava zadobijanje 'tačke oslonca', orijentisanje u haosu homogenosti, 'zasnivanje Sveta', i stvarno življenje. Naprotiv, profano iskustvo podražava homogenost i, dakle, relativnost prostora. Nestaje svaka prava orijentacija, jer 'tačka oslonca' nema vise jedinstveni ontološki status: ona se javlja i nestaje prema potrebama svakodnevnog života. Istinu govoreći, nema vise ni 'Sveta', već samo fragmenata jednog skrhanog univerzuma, amorfne mase jedne beskonačnosti 'mesta', više-manje neodređenih, gde se čovek kreće upravljen zahtevima egzistencije uklopljene u industrijsko društvo.  ...  Pitanje prelaza je i pitanje granice. Granica je uvek izazov kako za entitete koji se dodiruju tako i za one međusobno udaljene. Na granici...