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Certain events lend themselves to immortalization. These events so capture the human imagination that they alter a people’s way of looking at the totality of its experience, illuminate all other events, and bring about new orientations of thought. These events have a paradigmatic quality for they fuse the unique with the ultimate and the universal. The community preserves the event in legend or song and utilizes it as a vehicle for expressing its own self-understanding and for inculcating its youth in its values and ethos.
The unconscious naturally does not produce its images from conscious reflections, but from the worldwide propensity of the human system to form such conceptions as the … avatars of Hinduism …1
(C. G. Jung)
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Notes
M.-L. von Franz, ‘Patterns of Creativity Mirrored in Creation Myths’ (Zurich: Spring Publications, 1972) p. 5.
John McKenzie, The Old Testament Without Illusion (New York: Doubleday, 1980) p. 34.
This is attributed to Philip Wheelwright in ‘The Necessity of Myth’ by Mark Schorer as found in Henry A. Murray, Myth and Myth-making (New York: George Braziller, 1960) p. 355.
Ken Wilber, The Spectrum of Consciousness (Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 1977) p. 113.
Wendy D. O’Flaherty, Women, Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts (University of Chicago Press, 1980) p. 69.
C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (New York: Vintage Books, 1965) pp. 211–12.
John Moffitt, ‘Incarnation and Avatara: an Imaginary Conversation’, in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, vol. 14 (Spring 1977) pp. 273–4.
Raymond Panikkar, Kultmysterium in Hinduismus und Christentum (Freiburg and Munchen: Karl Alber, 1964), which is trans, and revised in French as Le mystere du culte dans l’hindouisme et le christianisme (Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1970).
Raymond Panikkar, The Unknown Christ of Hinduism (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1968) p. 4.
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Bassuk, D.E. (1987). Epilogue: Mythicization Avatarization Incarnationism. In: Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08642-9_7
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