Eliade

Eliade, Myth and Reality, 65. See also Eliade, Myths, Rites, Symbols, vol. 1, 79 Summarizing Eliade's statements on this subject, Eric Rust writes, "A new religious structure became available.

According to Mircea Eliade, one pervasive mythical theme associates heroes with the slaying of dragons, a theme which Eliade traces back to "the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth" of a battle between a divine hero and a dragon.

According to religious thought, said Eliade, myths establish models for human behavior, and "the more religious man is, the more paradigmatic models does he possess as a guide to his attitudes and actions" (Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane, p. 100).

As defined by Mircea Eliade in Shamanism, Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, Bollingen Series LXXVI, Pantheon Books, NY NY 1964, pp. 3–7.

Eliade and his colleague Charles Long developed a classification based on some common motifs that reappear in stories the world over.

Eliade, Myth and Reality, 14 George Every discusses the connection between the cosmic center and Golgotha in his book Christian Mythology, noting that the image of Adam's skull beneath the cross appears in many medieval representations of the crucifixion.

Eliade, Myth and Reality, 162 Oleyar 5 Barrett 69 A number of modern Christian writers such as C.S. Lewis have described elements of Christianity, particularly the story of Christ, as "myth" which is also "true" ("true myth").

Eliade, Myth and Reality, p. 1, 8-10; The Sacred and the Profane, p. 95 Thus, many scholars will call a body of stories "mythology", leaving open the question of whether the stories are true or false.

Eliade, Myth and Reality, p. 19 Lauri Honko asserted that, in some cases, a society will reenact a myth in an attempt to reproduce the conditions of the mythical age.

Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, 1967 p. 59. * Many religions involve the story of a god who undergoes death and resurrection (see life-death-rebirth deity ).

Eliade, Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries, in Ellwood 91–92 In his article "The Christian Mythology of Socialism", Will Herberg argues that socialism inherits the structure of its ideology from the influence of Christian mythology upon western thought.

Eliade writes: "Legend, as was natural, bestowed upon him the attributes of St. George, famed for his victorious fight with the monster.

However, authorship, precise date of origin, and even unity of the text are still subject of debate, Eliade (1984), p. 26 and will probably never be known with certainty.

Leeming, Creation Myths of the World, 307 Eliade, Cosmos and History, 12 Every 51 A number of scholars have connected the Christian story of the crucifixion at Golgotha with this theme of a cosmic center.

Mircea Eliade argues that the imagery used in some parts of the Hebrew Bible reflects a "transfiguration of history into myth".

See this pattern discussed in Eliade's Patterns in Comparative Religion - Section II (30) - The Supplanting of Sky Gods by Fecundators.

Segal, p. 113 In his appendix to Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, and in The Myth of the Eternal Return, Mircea Eliade attributed modern humans’ anxieties to their rejection of myths and the sense of the sacred.

These approaches are very much in contrast to approaches such as those of Campbell and Eliade that hold that myth has some type of essential connection to ultimate sacred meanings that transcend cultural specifics.