Mircea Eliade on Sacred and Cyclical Time

by Greg (08/12/2010 8:09 pm)

Sacred time is cyclical in nature.1 It is reversible because time can move forward or backward. Micea Eliade, perhaps the world’s greatest comparative religionist, showed that to the ancients, returning to the first moments of creation were necessary to learn how to obtain power to create. He termed this concept “the myth of the eternal [...]