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The "eternal return" is an idea for interpreting religious behavior proposed by the historian Mircea Eliade; it is a belief expressed through behavior (sometimes implicitly, but often explicitly) that one is able to become contemporary with or return to the "mythical age"—the time when the events described in one's myths occurred.[1]

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  1. 62 relations: Alan Dundes, Ancient Egypt, Anxiety, Archetype, Australia, Émile Durkheim, Bagadjimbiri, Buddhism, California, Cosmogony, Cosmos, Deggial, Dingo, Enūma Eliš, Eternal return, Euphrates, France, Geoffrey Kirk, Hero, Hierophany, Hinduism, Hupa, Inanna, Indian religions, Iran, Jack Goody, Jainism, Jean Cocteau, Karuk, Kimberley (Western Australia), Marduk, Maya (religion), Merlin Book 1: The Lost Years, Mesopotamia, Milan Kundera, Mircea Eliade, Modernity, Myth, Myth and ritual, Nome (Egypt), Pisces (constellation), Profane (religion), Reincarnation, Religion, Religions of the ancient Near East, Sacredness, Sacrilege, Secularity, Sociology, Sumer, ... Expand index (12 more) »

  2. Mircea Eliade
  3. Philosophy of history

Alan Dundes

Alan Dundes (September 8, 1934 – March 30, 2005) was an American folklorist.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.

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Anxiety

Anxiety is an emotion which is characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events.

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Archetype

The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Émile Durkheim

David Émile Durkheim (or; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917), professionally known simply as Émile Durkheim, was a French sociologist.

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Bagadjimbiri

In Karajarri mythology, the Bagadjimbiri are two brothers and creator spirits.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Cosmogony

Cosmogony is any model concerning the origin of the cosmos or the universe.

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Cosmos

The cosmos (Kósmos) is an alternative name for the universe or its nature or order.

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Deggial

Deggial is the ninth studio album by Swedish symphonic metal band Therion in 2000.

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Dingo

The dingo (either included in the species Canis familiaris, or considered one of the following independent taxa: Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo) is an ancient (basal) lineage of dog found in Australia.

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Enūma Eliš

(Akkadian Cuneiform:, also spelled "Enuma Elish"), meaning "When on High", is a Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words) from the late 2nd millennium BCE and the only complete surviving account of ancient near eastern cosmology.

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Eternal return

Eternal return (or eternal recurrence) is a philosophical concept which states that time repeats itself in an infinite loop, and that exactly the same events will continue to occur in exactly the same way, over and over again, for eternity.

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Euphrates

The Euphrates (see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Geoffrey Kirk

Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, was a British classicist who served as the 35th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge.

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Hero

A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength.

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Hierophany

A hierophany is a manifestation of the sacred. Eternal return (Eliade) and hierophany are Mircea Eliade.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Hupa

Hupa (Yurok language term: Huep'oola' / Huep'oolaa.

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Inanna

Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility.

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Indian religions

Indian religions, sometimes also termed Dharmic religions or Indic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Jack Goody

Sir John Rankine Goody (27 July 1919 – 16 July 2015) was an English social anthropologist.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.

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Karuk

The Karuk people are an indigenous people of California, and the Karuk Tribe is one of the largest tribes in California.

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Kimberley (Western Australia)

The Kimberley is the northernmost of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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Marduk

Marduk (Cuneiform: ᵈAMAR.UTU; Sumerian: "calf of the sun; solar calf") is a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon who eventually rose to power in the First Millennium BC.

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Maya (religion)

Maya (Devanagari: माया, IAST), literally "illusion" or "magic", has multiple meanings in Indian philosophies depending on the context.

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Merlin Book 1: The Lost Years

The Lost Years (originally entitled The Lost Years of Merlin) is a novel by T. A. Barron, published by Penguin Group USA about the legendary wizard Merlin's youth.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist.

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Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (– April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.

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Modernity

Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era) and the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of the Renaissancein the Age of Reason of 17th-century thought and the 18th-century Enlightenment.

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Myth

Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.

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Myth and ritual

Myth and ritual are two central components of religious practice.

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Nome (Egypt)

A nome (from νομός, nomós, "district") was a territorial division in ancient Egypt.

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Pisces (constellation)

Pisces is a constellation of the zodiac.

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Profane (religion)

Profane, or profanity in religious use may refer to a lack of respect for things that are held to be sacred, which implies anything inspiring or deserving of reverence, as well as behaviour showing similar disrespect or causing religious offense.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.

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Religion

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.

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Religions of the ancient Near East

The religions of the ancient Near East were mostly polytheistic, with some examples of monolatry (for example, Yahwism and Atenism).

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Sacredness

Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; is considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspires awe or reverence among believers.

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Sacrilege

Sacrilege is the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object, site or person.

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Secularity

Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin saeculum, "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

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Sumer

Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.

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T. A. Barron

Thomas Archibald Barron (born March 26, 1952) is an American writer of fantasy literature, books for children and young adults, and nature books.

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The Dreaming

The Dreaming, also referred to as Dreamtime, is a term devised by early anthropologists to refer to a religio-cultural worldview attributed to Australian Aboriginal beliefs.

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The Eternal Return (film)

The Eternal Return (French: L'Éternel retour) is a 1943 French romantic drama film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Madeleine Sologne and Jean Marais.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog, and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history.

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Therion (band)

Therion (formerly Blitzkrieg) is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987.

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Tiamat

In Mesopotamian religion, Tiamat (𒀭𒋾𒊩𒆳 or, Thaláttē) is the primordial sea, mating with Abzû (Apsu), the groundwater, to produce the gods in the Babylonian epic Enûma Elish, which translates as "when on high".

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Tigris

The Tigris (see below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates.

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Transcendence (religion)

In religion, transcendence is the aspect of existence that is completely independent of the material universe, beyond all known physical laws.

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Tristan and Iseult

Tristan and Iseult, also known as Tristan and Isolde and other names, is a medieval chivalric romance told in numerous variations since the 12th century.

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Ural-Altaic languages

Ural-Altaic, Uralo-Altaic, Uraltaic, or Turanic is a linguistic convergence zone and abandoned language-family proposal uniting the Uralic and the Altaic (in the narrow sense) languages.

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Yurok

The Yurok (Karuk language: Yurúkvaarar / Yuru Kyara - "downriver Indian; i.e. Yurok Indian") are an Indigenous peoples of California from along the Klamath River and Pacific coast, whose homelands stretch from Trinidad in the south to Crescent City in the north.

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Zurvanism

Zurvanism is a fatalistic religious movement of Zoroastrianism in which the divinity Zurvan is a first principle (primordial creator deity) who engendered equal-but-opposite twins, Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu.

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See also

Mircea Eliade

Philosophy of history

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return_(Eliade)

Also known as Cyclic time.

, T. A. Barron, The Dreaming, The Eternal Return (film), The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Therion (band), Tiamat, Tigris, Transcendence (religion), Tristan and Iseult, Ural-Altaic languages, Yurok, Zurvanism.