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#JosephCampbell #quote #Mythology In the last third of the 19th century, the buffalo were slaughtered en masse. . . [For the North American Indians] The whole social mythology lost its central image. The rights in the songs and dances–they had no reality anymore. It was all referring back to a time that wasn’t there. And . . . → Read More: Use Religious Symbols to Turn Inward The third function of a mythological order is to validate and maintain a certain sociological system: a shared set of rights and wrongs, proprieties or improprieties, on which your particular social unit depends for its existence. In the traditional societies, these notions of order and loss are held in the frame of the cosmological order: . . . → Read More: The Third Function of Mythology A mythological system, in short, according to this view, is a natural, I spontaneous production of the individual psyche, but a socially controlled reorganization of the imprints of childhood, so contrived that the sign stimuli that move the individual will conduce to the well-being of the local culture, and of that local culture alone. What . . . → Read More: From Social function to Pedagogical Function And so, we have next to ask what the difference is between the predicament of the “essential schizophrenic” and that of the trance-prone shaman: to which the answer is simply that that primitive shaman does not reject the local social order and its forms; that, in fact, it is actually by virtue of those forms . . . → Read More: Difference between schizophrenic and shaman. |
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