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 ,"

Mircea Eliade argues that the imagery used in some parts of the Hebrew Bible reflects a " transfiguration of history into myth ".

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.

Mircea Eliade sees the Abrahamic religions as a turning point between the ancient, cyclic view of time and the modern, linear view of time, noting that, in their case, sacred events are not limited to a far-off primordial age, but continue throughout history: " time is no longer the circular Time of the Eternal Return ; it has become linear and irreversible Time ".

Starting in the 19th century, Romanian historiography has also referred to him as Mircea the Great ().

The resemblance with Lazarica church indicates that Mircea cel Bătrân has employed Serbian craftsmen from the Morava School.

Since the 1970s Mircea Eliade, a prominent historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher, has been criticized for having supported the Iron Guard in the 1930s.

* The religious scholar and writer Mircea Eliade has applied the term " eternal return " to what he sees as a universal religious belief in the ability to return to the mythical age through myth and ritual ( see Eternal Return ( Eliade )).

It could be argued that Traditionalism has a strong, although discreet, impact in the field of comparative religion and particularly on the young Mircea Eliade, although he was not himself a member of this school.

Doniger holds the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor Chair in History of Religions at the University of Chicago, and has served on the editorial board of History of Religions since 1979, as well as editing a dozen other publications over her lifetime.

Mircea Eliade has compared these Borborite beliefs and practices involving Barbēlō to Tantric rituals and beliefs, noting that both systems have a common goal of attaining primordial spiritual unity through erotic bliss and the consumption of menses and semen.

In Mircea Eliade's opinion, " Every Microcosm, every inhabited region, has a Centre ; that is to say, a place that is sacred above all.

Recently he has played and composed electronic, rock, etno, alternative and contemporary music, sometimes together with Mircea Florian.

Mircea Eliade's nephew and commentator Sorin Alexandrescu himself proposed that Eliade's politics were essentially conservative and patriotic, in part motivated by a fear of the Soviet Union which he shared with many other young intellectuals.

The Christian army was destroyed in the Battle of Varna ; Hunyadi escaped the scene, and was blamed by many, including Mircea II and his father, for the debacle.

In May, after witnessing the result of Nazi pressures on Austria ( see Anschluss ), Călinescu decapitated the Guard by ordering arrests of its leaders, beginning with that of Codreanu, as well as many of its members and sympathisers ( including Nae Ionescu and Mircea Eliade ).

He played many celebrated roles by major Romanian playwrights ( Ion Luca Caragiale, Barbu Ştefănescu Delavrancea, Camil Petrescu, Tudor Muşatescu, Mircea Ştefănescu, Victor Ion Popa, Victor Eftimiu, Mihail Sebastian, Aurel Baranga, Mirodan ) and universally known roles by Shakespeare, Goldoni, Gogol, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Gorki, Albert Camus, Jules Romains, Eugen Ionescu, Jean Anouilh, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Edward Albee, Peter Schaffer, Patrick Süskind, Neil Simon, and Umberto Eco ).

At that theatre Nicolae Massim worked with young and promising actors such as Florin Vasiliu, George Marcovici, Olga Tudorache, Mircea Anghelescu, the Ciprian brothers or the Sahighian sisters, contributing to establishing them as stars in memorable plays such as a stage adaptation of Dickens ' David Copperfield, Schiller's The Brigands, Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Shaw's Bunbery and many others.

" He did not leave a line of successors, as he might have done, being in many respects a figure comparable to what Mircea Eliade was in Romania.

A government led by Mircea Druc, one of the leaders of the Popular Front, was formed.

Robert Ellwood, a professor of religion who did his graduate studies under Mircea Eliade, saw this type of nostalgia as one of the most characteristic themes in Eliade's life and academic writings.

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.

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

All of these would at one time or the other rule Wallachia, with Mircea II and Vlad Ţepeş both being able military commanders ( the latter would eventually become one of the most notorious leaders in history, and the inspiration for the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker ).

Cozia Monastery, erected close to Călimănești by Mircea cel Bătrân in 1388 and housing his tomb, is one of the most valuable monuments of national medieval art and architecture in Romania.

After Mircea I's death, princes succeeded one another on the throne with devastating frequency.

King Carol II and Zizi Lambrino had one son, Mircea Gregor Carol Lambrino ( 8 August 1920 – 27 January 2006 ).

Mircea II ( 1428 – 1447 ) was a one time ruler of the principality of Wallachia, in the year 1442.

Mircea Lucescu (; born 29 July 1945 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian former footballer and current manager, and one of the most successful Romanian football managers.

Historian of religions Mircea Eliade called Feuerstein's ' The Philosophy of Classical Yoga ', " one of the most profound and original contributions to the understanding of classical yoga ".

The first one, called the Battle of Karanovasa, took place on 10 October 1394 in which the Wallachian forces won, and the second took place between 17 and 18 May 1395, in which Mircea was defeated but the Ottomans had heavy casualties and they were not able to fully exploit the victory and subdue the country.

Only one was spared – the only son of the Ottoman general Isaac Bey, of the Gazi Evrenos family, whose father had fought with Mircea the Old.