Gods are metaphors transparent to transcendence. And my understanding of the mythological mode is that deities and even people are to be understood in this sense, as metaphors. Its a poetic understanding. It is to be understood in the same sense as Goethes words at the end of Faust: Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis (Everything transitory is but a reference). The reference is to that which transcends all speech, all vocabularies, and all images. I think of the more prosaic style of thinking about these references as theological rather than mythological. In theology, the god is taken as a final term, a kind of supernatural fact. When the deity is not transparent, when he doesnt open up like that to the transcendent, he doesnt open up to the mystery that is the mystery of our own lives. Joseph Campbell, Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, p. 101 https://youtube/watch?v=_OipkhcxS10
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:52:01 +0000
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