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Essays in Memory of Karl Kerényi
Edgar C. Polome: Karl Kerenyi?A biographical sketchEdgar C. Polome: Some thoughts on the methodology of Comparative Religion, with special focus on Indo EuropeanR. Panikkar: Yama?A Myth of the Primordial ManFrithjof Hallman: The LabyrinthMythology and landscapeHellmut Sichtermann: Kerenyi?s humanistic approach to ancient religionJohannes Kleinstuck: Mythical night and night of a mythFuri Jesi: Reflections on the Pseudo Euripidean RhesosGodo Lieberg: The Theologia Tripertita as an intellectual modelGeo Widengren: ?Was Not Then Our Heart Burning in Us??Hans Peter Isler: The animal frieze in archaic Greek art.
Dionysos
No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a complete expression of indestructible life, the essence of Dionysos. In this work, the noted mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerényi presents a historical account of the religion of Dionysos from its beginnings in the Minoan culture down to its transition to a cosmic and cosmopolitan religion of late antiquity under the Roman Empire. From the wealth of Greek literary, epigraphic, and monumental traditions, Kerényi constructs a picture of Di...
Science of Mythology
When Carl Jung and Carl Kerenyi got together to collaborate on this book, their aim was to elevate the study of mythology to a science. Kerenyi wrote on two of the most ubiquitous myths, the Divine Child and The Maiden, supporting the core 'stories' with both an introduction and a conclusion. Jung then provided a psychological analysis of both myths. He defined myth as a story about heroes interacting with the gods. Having long studied dreams and the subconscious, Jung identified certain dream patterns common to everyone. These 'archetypes' have developed through the centuries, and enable modern people to react to situations in much the same way as our ancestors. From nuclear annihilation to AIDS and Ebola, we continue to engage the gods in battle. Science of Mythology provides an account of the meaning and the purpose of mythic themes that is linked to modern life: the heroic battles between good and evil of yore are still played out, reflected in contemporary fears.
The Gods of the Greeks
Reconstructs the mythological histories of the divinities and the origin and destiny of mankind from ancient writings and artifacts.
Prometheus
Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. Carl Kerényi examines the story of Prometheus and the very process of mythmaking as a reflection of the archetypal function and seeks to discover how this primitive tale was invested with a universal fatality, first in the Greek imagination, and then in the Western tradition of Romantic poetry. Kerényi traces the evolving myth from Hesiod and Aeschylus, and in its epic treatment by Goethe and Shelley; he moves on to consider the myth from the perspective of Jungian psychology, as the archetype of human daring signifying the transformation of suffering into the mystery of the sacrifice.
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Eleusis
The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to "see visions," C. Kerenyi examines the Mysteries of Eleusis from the standpoint not only of Greek myth but also of human nature. Kerenyi holds that the yearly autumnal "mysteries" were based on the ancient myth of Demeter's search for her ravished daughter Persephone--a search that he equates not only with woman's quest for completion but also with every person's pursuit of identity. As he explores what the content of the mysteries may have been for those who experienced them, he draws on the study of archaeology, objects of art, and religious history, and suggests rich parallels from other mythologies.
En el laberinto
En los ensayos aquí reunidos, inéditos en España, Karl Kerényi ilustra los múltiples aspectos (simbólicos, iconográficos, literarios, míticos, rituales) a través de los cuales toma cuerpo ;ya sea en las culturas prehistóricas como en las culturas antigua, medieval y moderna; la forma originaria del laberinto, signo enigmático que ha fascinado y obsesionado tanto al pensamiento religioso como al filosófico, psicológico y artístico de cada época. Para Kerényi, la imagen del laberinto ha de ser buscada en una danza ritual y memorial, en un viaje de iniciación a los infiernos donde hay que aprender el camino de regreso y la emergencia a la luz. El dédalo de recorridos intrincados con el que el mito griego quiso representar el misterioso teatro de la lucha de Teseo contra el Minotauro, llega a ser así la más extraordinaria y luminosa metáfora de la reflexión y de la búsqueda.
