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Mircea Eliade
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Table of Contents

I. Approximations: the structure and morphology of the sacred
1. "Sacred" and "profane"
2. Difficulties of method
3. The variety among hierophanies
4. The multiplicity of hierophanies
5. The dialectic of hierophanies
6. The taboo and the ambivalence of the sacred
7. Mana
8. The structure of hierophanies
9. The revaluation of hierophanies
10. The complexity of "primitive" religion
II. The sky and sky gods
11. Sacredness of the sky
12. Australian sky gods
13. Sky gods among the Andaman islanders, Africans, etc
14. "Deus otiosus"
15. New "divine forms" substituted for the sky gods
16. Fusion and substitution
17, The antiquity of supreme beings of the sky
18. Sky gods among the people of the Arctic and central Asia
19. Mesopotamia
20. Dyaus, Varuna
21. Varuna and sovereignty
22. Iranian sky gods
23. Ouranos
24. Zeus
25. Jupiter, Odin, Taranis, etc
26. Storm gods
27. Fecundators
28. The spouse of the great mother
29. Yahweh
30. The supplanting of sky gods by fecundators
31. Sky symbolism
32. Ascension myths
33. Ascension rites
34. Ascension symbolism
35. Conclusion
III. The sun and sun-worship
36. Hierophanies of the sun and "rationalization"
37. The "solarization" of supreme beings
38. Africa, Indonesia
39. Solarization among the Munda
40. Solar cults
41. Descent from the sun
42. The sun as hierophant and psychopomp
43. Egyptian sun cults
44. Solar cults in the classical east and the Mediterranean
45. India; the ambivalence of the sun
46. Sun heroes, the dead and the elect
IV. The moon and its mystique
47. The moon and time
48. The coherence of all lunar epiphanies
49. The moon and the waters
50. The moon and vegetation
51. The moon and fertility
52. The moon, woman and snakes
53. Lunar symbolism
54. The moon and death
55. The moon and initiation
56. The symbolism of lunar "becoming"
57. Cosmo-biology and mystical physiology
58. The moon and fate
59. Lunar metaphysics
V. The waters and water symbolism
60. Water and the seeds of things
61. Water cosmogonies
62. Water as universal mother
63. The "water of life"
64. The symbolism of immersion
65. Baptism
66. The thirst of the dead
67. Miraculous and oracular springs
68. Water epiphanies and divinities
69. Nymphs
70. Poseidon, Aegir, etc
71. Water animals and emblems
72. Deluge symbolism
73. Summing up
VI. Sacred stones: epiphanies, signs and forms
74. Stones as manifesting power
75. Burial megaliths
76. Fertilizing stones
77. "Sliding"
78. Stones with holes: "thunder-stones"
79. Meteorites and bethels
80. Stone epiphanies and symbolisms
81. Sacred stone, omphalos, "centre of the world"
82. Signs and forms
VII. The earth, woman and fertility
83. The earth mother
84. The primeval pair: sky and earth
85. The structure of Chthonian hierophanies
86. Chthonian maternity
87. Man's descent from the earth
88. Regeneration
89. Homo-humus
90. Cosmological solidarity
91. Soil and woman
92. Woman and agriculture
93. Woman and furrow
94. Synthesis
VIII. Vegetation: rites and symbols of regeneration
95. A preliminary classification
96. The sacred tree
97. The tree as microcosm
98. The divinity dwelling in trees
99. The cosmic tree
100. The inverted tree
101. Yggdrasil
102. Plant epiphanies
103. Vegetation and great goddesses
104. Iconographic symbolism
105. Great goddess: tree life
106. The tree of knowledge
107. The guardians of the tree life
108. Monsters and gryphons
109. The tree and the cross
110. Rejuvenation and immortality
111. The archetype of simples
112. The tree as axis mundi
113. The myth of man' descent from a plant species
114. Transformation into plants
115. Relations between men and plants
116. The tree that regenerates
117. The marriage of trees
118. The May tree
119. "King" and "queen"
120. Sexuality an vegetation
121. Figures representing vegetation
122. Ritual contests
123. Cosmic symbolism
124. Summing-up
IX. Agriculture and fertility cults
125. Agricultural rites
126. Woman, sexuality and agriculture
127. Agricultural offerings
128. The "power" of the harvest
129. Mythical personifications
130. Human sacrifice
131. Human sacrifice among the Aztecs and the Khonds
132. Sacrifice and regeneration
133. End-of-the-harvest rituals
134. Seeds and the dead
135. Agricultural and funeral divinities
136. Sexual life and fertility of the fields
137. The 'ritual' function of the orgy
138. Orgy and reintegration
139. Agricultural mysticism and redemption
X. Sacred places: temple, palace, "centre of the world"
140. Hierophanies and repetition
141. The consecration of space
142. The "construction" of the sacred space
143. The "centre of the world"
144. Cosmic patterns and construction rites
145. The symbolism of the "centre"
146. "Nostalgia for paradise"
XI. Sacred time and the myth of eternal renewal
147. The heterogeneousness of time
148. The unity and contiguity of hierophanic time
149. Periodic recurrence: the eternal present
150. The restoration of mythical time
151. Non-periodic recurrence
152. The regeneration of time
153. Yearly repetition of the creation
154. Repetitions of the creation attached to particular occasions
155. Total regeneration
XII. The morphology and function of myths
156. Creation myths: exemplar myths
157. The cosmogonic egg
158. What myths reveal
159. Coincidentia oppositorum: the mythical pattern
160. The myth of divine androgyny
161. The myth of human androgyny
162. Myths of renewal, construction, initiation and so on
163. The make-up of a myth; Varuna and Vrta
164. Myth as "exemplar history"
165. The corruption of myths
XIII. The structure of symbols
166. Symbolic stones
167. The degradation of symbols
168. Infantilization
169. Symbols and hierophanies
170. The coherence of symbols
171. The function of symbols
172. The logic of symbols.

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Translation of Traité d'histoire des religions.

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BL80 .E513 1963

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xvi, 484 p.
Number of pages
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OCLC/WorldCat
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