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Mythologies of the World's Origins in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Bohumil Holas
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The myth (whose different definitions we need not enumerate here) cannot be categorized. It has an autonomous status. Imbued as it is with religious ideas, it is in practice an indispensable part of the African liturgy. It is often a necessary component of the rite, sustaining the thread of certain ceremonies. What we call drame sacré is, with all its implied formalism, a dramatization of the myth, or what amounts to the same thing, an actualization of holy scriptures.

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Diogenes , Volume 12 , Issue 48 , December 1964 , pp. 105 - 124
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Copyright © 1964 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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