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The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.

— Mircea Eliade The Myth of the Eternal Return (1954)

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The interpretations of Freud are more and more successful because they are among the myths accessible to modern man.

No Souvenirs (1977)

The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred.

It is above all the valorizing of the present that requires emphasizing.

Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade (2002)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the "founding of the world": where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.

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