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Eliade, Mircea - The role of the Orgy
Identifier
010981
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Mircea Eliade believed that the orgy was originally intended as a symbolic representation of chaos. Seems well worth a try………..
A description of the experience
Mircea Eliade
Men lose their individuality in the orgy, combining into a single living unity. They effect thus a total fusion of emotions in which neither form nor law is observed. They try once more to enter the primal, pre-formal chaotic state – a state that corresponds in the cosmological order to the chaotic formlessness before the creation … by bringing back the mythical chaos that existed before creation, the orgy makes it possible for creation to be repeated