Images and Symbols: Studies in Religious Symbolism
By (Author) Mircea Eliade
Translated by Philip Mairet
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
3rd September 1991
United States
General
Non Fiction
Spirituality and religious experience
291.37
Paperback
192
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
227g
Shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is an essential function of human consciousness. The author analyzes powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.