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.

* Mircea Eliade

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.

* 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 )).

* April 22 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer ( b. 1907 )

In Romania, Mircea Eliade's legacy in the field of the history of religions is mirrored by the journal Archaeus ( founded 1997, and affiliated with the University of Bucharest Faculty of History ).

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.

Mircea Eliade gave a positive evaluation of Dumezil's views and of the comparative research results on Indoeuropean religions achieved in Tarpeia.

His primary mentors there were Mircea Eliade, the influential Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher ; Frank Reynolds ( South Asian Buddhism ), Charles Long ( indigenous religions ) and Joseph Kitagawa ( East Asian Buddhism ).

Mircea Eliade is today considered the greatest historian in the field of religions.

He became a friend, and later the literary executor, of Mircea Eliade, the famous historian of religions.

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 ".

Participants over the years have included Heinrich Zimmer ( Indian religious art ), Karl Kerényi ( Greek mythology ), Mircea Eliade ( history of religions ), Carl Jung and Erich Neumann ( analytical psychology ), Alfons Rosenberg ( symbolism ), Gilles Quispel ( gnostic studies ), Gershom Scholem ( Jewish mysticism ), Henry Corbin ( Islamic religion ), Adolf Portmann ( biology ), Herbert Read ( art history ), Max Knoll ( physics ), and Joseph Campbell ( comparative mythology ).

Commenting on this dialog, literary historian and essayist Mircea Iorgulescu objected to the original verdict, indicating his belief that there was no historical evidence to substantiate Culianu's point of view.

It is believed the castle was briefly held by Mircea the Elder of Wallachia during whose period the customs point was established.

Finally, the noted comparative religion scholar Mircea Eliade speculated that this conflict is actually a later version of an Indo-European myth concerning the conflict between and eventual integration of a pantheon of sky / warrior / ruler gods and a pantheon of earth / economics / fertility gods, with no strict historical antecedents.

His family moved between Tecuci and Bucharest, ultimately settling in the capital in 1914, and purchasing a house on Melodiei Street, near Piaţa Rosetti, where Mircea Eliade resided until late in his teens.

" Mircea Eliade's assessment of his own pre-1940 literary contributions oscillated between expressions of pride and the bitter verdict that they were written for " an audience of little ladies and high school students ".

During the final years of Mircea Eliade's life, his disciple Culianu exposed and publicly criticized his 1930s pro-Iron Guard activities ; relations between the two soured as a result.

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

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

Mircea Eliade, published 1993 by Macmillan for the University of Chicago ) draws parallels between the sheela na gig and the ancient Irish myth of the goddess who granted kingship.

Basarab II ruled during a turbulent time in Wallachia, now part of present day Romania, with his rule falling between that of the father and son rule of Vlad Dracul and Mircea II.

The archaeologist Mircea Babeş spoke of a " veritable ethno-cultural unity " between the Getae and the Dacians.

Petru also acted as an intermediary in the negotiations between the Wallachia voivode Mircea cel Bătrân and the Polish king that resulted in the treaties signed by the two parts in 1389 and 1390.

When Mircea Ciobanul was deposed by the Ottoman Empire ( Wallachia's overlord ) in the spring of 1554, Bucharest was ravaged by Janissary troops ; violence again occurred after Mircea returned to the throne and attacked those who had been loyal to Pătraşcu cel Bun ( February 1558 ), during the 1574 conflict between Vintilă and Alexandru II Mircea, and under the rule of Alexandru cel Rău ( early 1590s ).

A local administration was first attested under Petru cel Tânăr ( in 1563 ), when a group of pârgari countersigned a property purchase ; the city's borders, established by Mircea Ciobanul, were confirmed by Matei Basarab in the 1640s, but the inner borders between properties remained rather chaotic, and were usually confirmed periodically by the Jude and his pârgari.

As part of his criticism of the Iron Guard, Culianu had come to expose Mircea Eliade's connections with the latter movement during the interwar years ( because of this, relations between the two academics had soured for the final years of Eliade's life ).

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

The Battle of Rovine took place on 17 May 1395 between the Wallachian army led by Voivod Mircea cel Bătrân ( Mircea the Elder ) against the Ottoman invasion led by sultan Bayezid I.

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.

In protest, the women's strike committee headed by Galina Andreeva blocked the Moscow-Chişinău railway line at a waypoint between Bender and Tiraspol, until the arrested were freed by the president of Moldova Mircea Snegur in an attempt to quell the spirits.