Pari Perspectives 12: Mythologies – Digital Edition

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Today the word ‘myth’ is largely derogatory, used as it is to designate a narrative which is untrue but which has a hold at some primitive level on those considered to be insufficiently advanced in knowledge, be they ‘primitive peoples’ or our own peers and contemporaries. Whatever the attitude to myth, surely they—myths, either personal or collective—must be what we all live by, though largely unconsciously, as otherwise what is it that gives meaning to our lives or binds us together in communities of one kind or another?  This issue opens with a very fine essay from Jungian, Beverley Zabriskie: ‘Orpheus and Eurydice:…

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