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Notes to Chapter 5. The myth and its peculiarities

Giorgio Buccellati – August 2023

5.1 The myth as style
5.2 The myth as rationalization of nature
5.3 The crystallization of the cosmological coscience
5.4 Myths about origin and organization
5.5 Crystallization of the political coscience
5.6 Idealization of the institutions
5.7 Narrative
5.8 Poetical structure
5.9 Mythology
5.10 The two registers
5.11 A theater of absurdum
5.12 Origins: elements and processes
5.13 Compositional structures
5.14 Myth and "revelation"
5.15 The great systems
5.16 On the first origins of the myth
5.17 Literary developments
5.18 Diachronical developments
5.19 Organization of the material
      5.19.1 Two cultures in comparison
      5.19.2 Sumerian myths
      5.19.3 Akkadian myths
5.20 Sumerian myths
      5.20.1 Myths about elements
      5.20.2 The imaginative register
5.21 Akkadian myths
      5.21.1 Myths about systems and great processes
      5.21.2 The referential register


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5.5 Crystallization of the political coscience

  1. On the cause as a constitutive element, see Sokolowski 1970 Constitution. On myth as a metaphorical narrative, see perhaps Cassirer’s symbolic forms.

    – [ Giorgio Buccellati, January 2022]