What kind of experience is the experience of change? Mythology offers
abundant proof that the experience of change is associated with an awareness
which causes anxiety and is difficult to accept: the awareness of limits, of death,
of the transitory nature of everything about human life. Consciousness of time
and consciousness of death are clearly related. Chronos is a threatening god who
eats his progeny. All religions have tried to exorcise the idea of time through
the invention of a sacred time that, as Mircea Eliade has shown, has the role of
cancelling out historical time from a person’s life, with the experience of the
return of identical things, the reversibility of time’s arrow, the suspension of the
future (Eliade, 1959a, 1959b).
Simonetta Tabboni
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