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The Myth of the Eternal ReturnMircea Eliade
Hinduism: Gods, Scriptures and Paths
The Myth of the Eternal Return
Eliade's influential essay on archaic conceptions of time, contrasting cyclical, repeatable sacred time with the linear time of history. Indian doctrines of yugas and cosmic cycles serve as one of his principal examples.
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