Some Intercultural Roots of Purāṇic Mythological Cycle around Nārāyaṇa
ABSTRACTIn this paper, I use the structural analysis of myth proposed by C. Lévi-Strauss to show that there is a structural similarity between two mythological cycles of dying(sleeping)-and-rising god: around Ba’al and around Nārāyaṇa. On the one hand, the West Semitic myth of Ba’al and the Purāṇic...
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| description | ABSTRACTIn this paper, I use the structural analysis of myth proposed by C. Lévi-Strauss to show that there is a structural similarity between two mythological cycles of dying(sleeping)-and-rising god: around Ba’al and around Nārāyaṇa. On the one hand, the West Semitic myth of Ba’al and the Purāṇic myth of Nārāyaṇa have different descriptions and assume different cults. On the other hand, we can detect a homotopy equivalence among mythemes of both cycles – i.e., a functional similarity in their characters and subordinations. As we know, the earliest Purāṇic texts are dated from the second century AD. The myth about Ba’al appeared not later than the fifteenth century among West Semitic peoples and was popular among the Hittites, too. From the structural similarity between Ba’al and Nārāyaṇa myths it follows that the Purāṇic myth of Nārāyaṇa is much older than it is dated now. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d28bd31985d84c92a81fcf96f361baa42023-01-08T04:21:22ZengTaylor & Francis GroupComparative Literature: East & West2572-36182022-07-016220721910.1080/25723618.2022.2104024Some Intercultural Roots of Purāṇic Mythological Cycle around NārāyaṇaAndrew Schumann0Head of the Department of Cognitive Science and Mathematical Modelling, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Rzeszow, PolandABSTRACTIn this paper, I use the structural analysis of myth proposed by C. Lévi-Strauss to show that there is a structural similarity between two mythological cycles of dying(sleeping)-and-rising god: around Ba’al and around Nārāyaṇa. On the one hand, the West Semitic myth of Ba’al and the Purāṇic myth of Nārāyaṇa have different descriptions and assume different cults. On the other hand, we can detect a homotopy equivalence among mythemes of both cycles – i.e., a functional similarity in their characters and subordinations. As we know, the earliest Purāṇic texts are dated from the second century AD. The myth about Ba’al appeared not later than the fifteenth century among West Semitic peoples and was popular among the Hittites, too. From the structural similarity between Ba’al and Nārāyaṇa myths it follows that the Purāṇic myth of Nārāyaṇa is much older than it is dated now.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/25723618.2022.2104024Ba’alNārāyaṇaBibleUgaritPurāṇaAchaemenid |
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| title | Some Intercultural Roots of Purāṇic Mythological Cycle around Nārāyaṇa |
| title_full | Some Intercultural Roots of Purāṇic Mythological Cycle around Nārāyaṇa |
| title_fullStr | Some Intercultural Roots of Purāṇic Mythological Cycle around Nārāyaṇa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Some Intercultural Roots of Purāṇic Mythological Cycle around Nārāyaṇa |
| title_short | Some Intercultural Roots of Purāṇic Mythological Cycle around Nārāyaṇa |
| title_sort | some intercultural roots of puranic mythological cycle around narayana |
| topic | Ba’al Nārāyaṇa Bible Ugarit Purāṇa Achaemenid |
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