Kerenyi, myths and misteries

 · Dr Károly Kerényi superb book on the Eleusinian mysteries transports us into the magnificent world of Ancient human thought and into the archetype of the Mother-daughter cycle, seen from a mythological perspective. The writer compares myths within the Ancient world and with myths in Indonesia for bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. In "The Primordial Child in Primordial Times" Kerenyi treats the child-God as an enduring and significant figure in Greek, Norse, Finnish, Etruscan, and Judeo-Christian mythology. He discusses the Kore as Athena, Artemis, Hecate, and Demeter-Persephone, the mother-daughter of the Eleusinian mysteries. Carl Kerényi was professor of classics and the history of religion in his native Hungary and later became a citizen of Switzerland. He died in at the age of His works include Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter and, with C. G. Jung, Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis.

The myth of the seduction of Persephone into the underworld is a myth containing this triad god of Demeter, Maiden and Dionysus, which not randomly, appears at the Dionysus festivals at Eleusis. The last day of the mysteries is devoted to plenty in its liquid form, the day of the Plemochoai, "The pouring of plenty". Praise 1. 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. Carl Kerényi was professor of classics and the history of religion in his native Hungary and later became a citizen of Switzerland. He died in at the age of His works include Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter and, with C. G. Jung, Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis.

As a historian of myth as it was embedded in the details of Hellenic culture, its "characteristic social existence" as he put it, Kerényi opposed his "differentiated thinking about the concrete realities of human life" with the "summary thinking" that represented for him the influence of Sir James Frazer on the study of the peoples of antiquity and Greek religion especially. On show at last: the myths and mysteries of Belkis Ayón, a giant of Cuban art. The short but brilliant career of the printmaker is explored at her first European retrospective in Madrid, 22 years. 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.