Magic, a Basic Infrastructure in Mythical Ideology

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

qom azad university

10.29252/kavosh.2011.2536

Abstract

We can put the mythical ideology, as an old and powerful trend in human thought, side by side with two other ideologies: scientific and philosophical ideologies. In this research, we talk about two mythological criticism schools which we have named and organized: the school of depth mythological criticism and the school of exterior mental mythological criticism. In the exterior mental mythological criticism school, the mythical organized ideology should be assessed from the viewpoint of basic elements and constituents like magic, taboo, tootem, nigueem, poyogani sepand (the holy marriage), animation, barkhy (sacrifice) of the sky ruler, and etc. In this research, we explore magic deeply and clearly as a basic infrastructure in this likelihood kinds and links we also indicate the function of those two kinds of magic in myth, epic and religion. Also we show that the two elements of mythical ideology, that is, poyogani sepand and barkhy of the sky ruler, have been based upon fertilization, growing and reproduction of nature according to a magic- like frame.      
 

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