Rites And Symbols Of Initiation by Mircea Eliade
The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth
A comparative study of initiation rituals across cultures that traces the symbolic grammar of rites of passage—separation, liminality, and incorporation—and shows how myths, ceremonial deaths and rebirths, ordeals, purification, secret teachings, and sacred time and space enact personal transformation and social integration; the work interprets recurrent motifs (water, fire, blood, masks, descent) as metaphors for psychic and cosmic renewal and argues that initiation functions to resolve existential transitions, legitimize authority, and bind individuals into communal and religious orders.
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- Published
- 1958
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 200-250 pages
- Original Language
- French
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