References in Popular Culture
In T. A. Barron's The Lost Years of Merlin (the "Sacred Time" chapter), Merlin's mother says that "stories" — specifically, myths — are "real enough to help live. And work. And find the meaning hidden in every dream, every leaf, every drop of dew." She states that "they dwell in sacred time, which flows in a circle. Not historical time, which runs in a line."
Jean Cocteau's screenplay for L' Eternel Retour (1943) portrays the timeless nature of the myth of Tristan and Isolde.
Read more about this topic: Eternal Return (Eliade)
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