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Maydanov, A. S.
Reality in mythological and scientific view
// Philosophy and Culture.
2009. № 6.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=56702
Maydanov, A. S. Reality in mythological and scientific view
Abstract:
Abstract: the article is aimed at finding the adequate interpretation of the famous Vedantic myth about the demon Vritra. The author is showing how weak usual “cosmic” interpretations of this myth are. Instead he has suggested the “chthonian” approach which allows to us to see that the myth reflected actual “earthly” events. The author compared the myth with the results of archeological and geomorphological (i.e. scientific) researchers and identified those events as actual referents of the myth. The article also contains description of certain paradigms and methods which were used by the archaic mind when constructing such a myth.
Keywords:
mythological thinking, mythological image, mental construction, fiction, paradigm, subjectivism, interpretation, research, referent, scientific view.
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