For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
Building upon your "Thought for the Day," I have posted an observation about the mythical (religious) power of the peacock, particularly among the Yeziki of Turkey and Iraq, and to Flannery O'Connor (though it must seem bizarre to make comparisons between a Southern Roman Catholic writer and the Kurdish group associated with the Cult of Angels). Myth, when you get to its foundations, is irreducible and mystifying, and it becomes part and parcel of religion in so many ways. When animals (like the peacock) become essential representations of myth, that opens all sorts of lines of inquiry. My open question about peacocks and other animals is one such inquiry.
Building upon your "Thought for the Day," I have posted an observation about the mythical (religious) power of the peacock, particularly among the Yeziki of Turkey and Iraq, and to Flannery O'Connor (though it must seem bizarre to make comparisons between a Southern Roman Catholic writer and the Kurdish group associated with the Cult of Angels). Myth, when you get to its foundations, is irreducible and mystifying, and it becomes part and parcel of religion in so many ways. When animals (like the peacock) become essential representations of myth, that opens all sorts of lines of inquiry. My open question about peacocks and other animals is one such inquiry.
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