Eliade
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Time disappears and is replaced with what the religious scholar Mircea Eliade calls the “eternal mythical present,” with its heroes and tragedies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
Like an ancient myth of resurrection, Eliade argued, the Indian Rope Trick used symbols to re-enact events both cosmic and worldly: the origin and end of the universe, the life cycle of death and rebirth.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
Instead we adopt the insight of nearly all traditional societies: that social time is a recurring cycle in which events become meaningful only to the extent that they are what philosopher Mircea Eliade calls “reenactments.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2017
The second is hierophany, a term borrowed from University of Chicago legend Mircea Eliade, which means “a manifestation of the sacred or holy.”
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013
Among other admirers of this music was Eliade, twin sister of Leonora, and resembling her so closely that even friends could scarcely distinguish her.
From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Hughes, Rupert
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