Myths and symbols; studies in honor of Mircea Eliade. Edited by Joseph M. Kitagawa and Charles H. Long. With the collaboration of Jerald C. Brauer and Marshall G. S. Hodgson.

Contributor(s): Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986 | Kitagawa, Joseph Mitsuo, 1915- [ed.] | Long, Charles H [ed.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1969] Description: 438 p. port. 23 cmISBN: 0226438279; 9780226438276Subject(s): Mythology | SymbolismDDC classification: 291 LOC classification: BL25 | .M85Other classification: 11.01
Contents:
1. Phenomenological and theoretical ... : Nomina numina / Giuseppe Tucci -- The superhuman personality of Buddha and its symbolism in the Mahāparinirvānasūtra of the Dharmaguptaka / André Bareau -- Indian varieties of art ritual / Stella Kramrisch -- No time, great time, and profane time in Buddhism / Alex Wayman -- The problem of the double-sense as hermeneutic problem and as semantic problem / Paul Ricoeur -- Eliade and folklore / Mirceau Popescu -- The weighing of the soul / S.G.F. Brandon -- God in African mythology / E.G. Parrinder -- Speaking of a place / Kees W. Bolle -- Silence and signification: a note on religion and modernity / Charles H. Long -- 2. Historical ... : The last three voyages of Il'ja of Murom / G. Dumézil -- On sin and punishment: some remarks concerning biblical and rabbinical ethics / Gershom Scholem -- The death of Gayōmart / Geo Widengren -- Symbol of a symbol / Angelo Brelich -- Sexual symbolism in the Svetāśvatara Upanishad / R.C. Zaehner -- Manasā, goddess of snakes: the Sasthī myth / Edward C. Dimock, Jr. -- The "passivity" of language and the experience of nature: a study in the structure of the primitive mind / Werner Müller -- Ordeal by fire / Ernst Benz -- Docetism: a peculiar theory about the ambivalence of the presence of the divine / U. Bianchi -- A vanishing problem / Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin -- Chains of being in early Christianity / Robert M. Grant -- Hitotsu-mono: a human symbol of the Shinto Kami / Ichirō Hori -- Ainu myth / Joseph M. Kitagawa -- 3. Literary ... : Drugs and ecstasy / Ernst Jünger -- The literary works of Mircea Eliade / Virgil Ierunca -- Authenticity and experience of time: remarks on Mircea Eliade's literary works / Günther Spaltmann -- The forest as Mandala: notes concerning a novel by Mircea Eliade / Vintila Horia -- Time and destiny in the novels of Mircea Eliade / George Uscatescu -- Beginnings of a friendship / E.M. Cioran.

1. Phenomenological and theoretical ... : Nomina numina / Giuseppe Tucci -- The superhuman personality of Buddha and its symbolism in the Mahāparinirvānasūtra of the Dharmaguptaka / André Bareau -- Indian varieties of art ritual / Stella Kramrisch -- No time, great time, and profane time in Buddhism / Alex Wayman -- The problem of the double-sense as hermeneutic problem and as semantic problem / Paul Ricoeur -- Eliade and folklore / Mirceau Popescu -- The weighing of the soul / S.G.F. Brandon -- God in African mythology / E.G. Parrinder -- Speaking of a place / Kees W. Bolle -- Silence and signification: a note on religion and modernity / Charles H. Long -- 2. Historical ... : The last three voyages of Il'ja of Murom / G. Dumézil -- On sin and punishment: some remarks concerning biblical and rabbinical ethics / Gershom Scholem -- The death of Gayōmart / Geo Widengren -- Symbol of a symbol / Angelo Brelich -- Sexual symbolism in the Svetāśvatara Upanishad / R.C. Zaehner -- Manasā, goddess of snakes: the Sasthī myth / Edward C. Dimock, Jr. -- The "passivity" of language and the experience of nature: a study in the structure of the primitive mind / Werner Müller -- Ordeal by fire / Ernst Benz -- Docetism: a peculiar theory about the ambivalence of the presence of the divine / U. Bianchi -- A vanishing problem / Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin -- Chains of being in early Christianity / Robert M. Grant -- Hitotsu-mono: a human symbol of the Shinto Kami / Ichirō Hori -- Ainu myth / Joseph M. Kitagawa -- 3. Literary ... : Drugs and ecstasy / Ernst Jünger -- The literary works of Mircea Eliade / Virgil Ierunca -- Authenticity and experience of time: remarks on Mircea Eliade's literary works / Günther Spaltmann -- The forest as Mandala: notes concerning a novel by Mircea Eliade / Vintila Horia -- Time and destiny in the novels of Mircea Eliade / George Uscatescu -- Beginnings of a friendship / E.M. Cioran.

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