They are often set in a dim and nonspecific past, what historian of religion Mircea Eliade termed in illo tempore (" at that time ").

Mircea Eliade defined " myth " in terms of " creation ,"

According to Mircea Eliade, the Middle Ages witnessed " an upwelling of mythical thought " in which each social group had its own " mythological traditions ".

According to Mircea Eliade, one pervasive mythical theme associates heroes with the slaying of dragons, a theme which Eliade traces back to " the very ancient cosmogonico-heroic myth " of a battle between a divine hero and a dragon.

According to Mircea Eliade, many traditional societies have a cyclic sense of time, periodically reenacting mythical events.

According to Mircea Eliade, the medieval " Gioacchinian myth [...] of universal renovation in a more or less imminent future " has influenced a number of modern theories of history, such as those of Lessing ( who explicitly compares his views to those of medieval " enthusiasts "), Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling, and has also influenced a number of Russian writers.

* Eliade, Mircea

** Myths, Rites, Symbols: A Mircea Eliade Reader.

The Politics of Myth: A Study of C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell.

* Eliade, Mircea.

It was based on the novella of the same name by Romanian author Mircea Eliade.

The religious historian Mircea Eliade speaks of a desire to transcend old age and death and achieve a state of nirvana in the Hindu practice of Tantric yoga.

The Gloranthan world is characterised by its complex use of mythology, heavily influenced by the universalist approaches of Joseph Campbell and Mircea Eliade, its Howardian ethos, its long and distinctive history as a setting for role-playing games, its community development and expansion, and ( unusual among early American fantasy role-playing games ) its relative lack of Tolkienesque influence.

* Eliade, Mircea, and Joan P. Couliano.

Mircea Eliade argued that one of the foremost functions of myth is to establish models for behavior and that myths may also provide a religious experience.

In his appendix to Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, and in The Myth of the Eternal Return, Mircea Eliade attributed modern man ’ s anxieties to his rejection of myths and the sense of the sacred.

* Eliade, Mircea.

* Eliade, Mircea.

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Mircea Eliade, a professor of the history of religions, declared that myth did not hold religion back, that myth was an essential foundation of religion, and that eliminating myth would eliminate a piece of the human psyche.

Mircea Eliade writes, " A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the least hazardous, will be: shamanism = ' technique of religious ecstasy '.

" Davidson says that while the creature may vary, the horse is fairly common " in the lands where horses are in general use, and Sleipnir's ability to bear the god through the air is typical of the shaman's steed " and cites an example from a study of shamanism by Mircea Eliade of an eight-legged foal from a story of a Buryat shaman.

* Eliade, Mircea.

Romanian scholar Mircea Handoca, editor of Eliade's writings, argues that the controversy surrounding Eliade was encouraged by a group of exiled writers, of whom Manea was a main representative, and believes that Eliade's association with the Guard was a conjectural one, determined by the young author's Christian values and conservative stance, as well as by his belief that a Legionary Romania could mirror Portugal's Estado Novo.

Granger believes, following Mircea Eliade, that because forms of entertainment in a secular or profane culture serve a mythic and religious function ; the most popular works will be those with transcendent imagery, structure, and meaning.

The Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade also noted that Arada, along with Irodiada, was a name used for a Romanian folkloric Queen of the Fairies ( Doamna Zinelor ), whom he believed was a " metamorphosis of Diana ".

Prince Mircea I of Wallachia used it against the Ottomans in 1395 and prince Stephen III of Moldavia scorched the earth in his country as the Ottoman army advanced in 1475 and 1476.

Historian Mircea Eliade calls this Supreme Being a deus otiosus ( an " idle god "), although this term is also used more broadly, to refer to any god who doesn't interact regularly with humans.

It was founded in May 2005 by Mircea Dinescu, who used to write a daily editorial called " Vorba lu ' Dinescu ", and Cristian Tudor Popescu, who was also the editor-in-chief until January 2008.

According to Mircea Eliade's Encyclopedia of Religion, some of the Nagas of Manipur trace their ancestry from a butterfly.

An important section of the Congress was dedicated to the memory of Mircea Eliade, whose legacy in the field of history of religions was scrutinized by various scholars, some of whom were his direct students at the University of Chicago.

Eliade's Iphigenia was again included in theater programs during the late years of the Nicolae Ceauşescu regime: in January 1982, a new version, directed by Ion Cojar, premiered at the National Theater Bucharest, starring Mircea Albulescu, Tania Filip and Adrian Pintea in some of the main roles.

On October 10 near Nicopolis, some 7, 000 Wallachian cavalrymen under Mircea II, one of Vlad Dracul's sons, also joined.

Following some conflicts between Nicu Covaci and the vocalist of the band, Mircea Baniciu, the latter leaves Phoenix.

* The early ( pre-WWII ) novels and short stories of Mircea Eliade, as well as some later literary works originally written in Romanian

A remainder of the former " Ceauşima " is the never-completed eastern portion between Mircea Vodǎ and Nerva Traian streets ( some 30 hectares ).

Reportedly, Iorga's murder instantly repelled some known supporters of the Guard, such as Radu Gyr and Mircea Eliade.

After the death of Mircea, Sigismund freed the Severin Fortress occupied by the Turks, and even made some concessions to the monasteries of Vodita and Tismana.

The direction of comparative religion is represented by Mircea Eliade, and also to some extent by the literary critic René Girard.

The hypothesis was embraced outside the field of Indo-European studies by some mythographers, anthropologists, and historians such as Mircea Eliade, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Marshall Sahlins, Rodney Needham, Jean-Pierre Vernant and Georges Duby.

Deshmukh and Mircea Eliade are of the opinion that there exists some link between Rishabha and Indus valley civilization.

In an effort to maintain a critical position and its independence, the entire editorial team quit the institute and founded a new publication, Dilema Veche, with the financial support of some of its columnists and of the poet and publicist Mircea Dinescu.