The Co-presence of Ritual, Symbol and Logos in Ancient Greek Culture: From "Daimon-mana" to Olympian God and to the "Logos" of Being
Keywords:
Daimon, Mana, Kouretes, tragedy, Olympic Games, religion, Greece, ritual, God.
Abstract
Normally we think about the culture of a society as a pattern of meanings guided and shaped by Reason, by the Logos. This coauthored paper questions that approach, and puts in place the dynamic confluence of mimetic-ritual domains, symbolic-mythic domains and rational domains, using the shift of the old greek religion as a case study, represented by the myth-ritual of the Enyautos-Daimon, which is a reflection of a symbolic sacralization that starts in the nature and slides to the olympic religion, which represents a sacralization of the divine, expressed by Zeus, central God of the greek pantheon, from which shall arise the metaphysical-ontological constellation of meaning of the Logos of Being.Downloads
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Published
2016-06-30
How to Cite
Beriain Rázquin J. y Gil-Gimeno J. (2016). The Co-presence of Ritual, Symbol and Logos in Ancient Greek Culture: From "Daimon-mana" to Olympian God and to the "Logos" of Being. Política y Sociedad, 53(3), 733-755. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_POSO.2016.v53.n3.50772
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