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By C. G. Jung, C. Kerenyi, R. F. C. Hull

Essays on a technological know-how of Mythology is a cooperative paintings among C. Ker?nyi, who has been referred to as "the so much mental of mythologists," and C. G. Jung, who has been known as "the so much mythological of psychologists." Ker?nyi contributes an essay at the Divine baby and one at the Kore (the Maiden), including a considerable creation and end. Jung contributes a mental statement on each one essay. either males was hoping, via their collaboration, to raise the examine of mythology to the prestige of a science.In "The Primordial baby in Primordial occasions" Ker?nyi treats the child-God as an everlasting and important determine in Greek, Norse, Finnish, Etruscan, and Judeo-Christian mythology. He discusses the Kore as Athena, Artemis, Hecate, and Demeter-Persephone, the mother-daughter of the Eleusinian mysteries. Jung speaks of the Divine baby and the Maiden as dwelling mental realities that supply carrying on with that means in people's lives.The investigations of C. Ker?nyi are endured in a later examine, Eleusis: Archetypal photograph of mom and Daughter (Princeton).

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Hymn to Hiranyagarbha, the "Golden Germ" (Rjg-veda, X, 121), and the cosmogonic texts in K. F. GeldnGr in Bertholet's Rcligionsgescb. Lesebucb 9 (Thbingen, 1928), pp. 89 if. Also Puranatexten in H. Zimmer, Maya (Stuttgart, 19315).

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