Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: This article aims to examine the circular aspect included in some of the ancients mythic conceptions about the form of Time, exemplifying with some of mythic patterns of circular representation of Time that appear in the mythologies hinduist, jainist, greek and Hawaiian. The circular pattern of the mythic time is contrasted, in the sequence, with the linear pattern of Time introduced by Christian perspective. The article examines also the relation between myth and rite, which introduces a binary form in the circular time proposed by some of the mythic patterns of decadence of humanity.
Author: José D'Assunção Barros
Institution: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: General Arts and Humanities
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1965710637