ABSTRACT
The theoretical construction of the worldview arose at the point where consciousness first performed a clear separation between “semblance” and “truth,” between what is merely “perceived” or “represented” and “true beings”, between the “subjective” and the “objective”. All being and all events are projected into the basic opposition of the “sacred” and the “profane,” and in this very projection, they acquire a new content, one that they do not simply “have” from the beginning but that they acquire mythical illumination. Mythical consciousness arrives at an organizing of space and time not by fixing the fluctuating and hovering of sensible appearances into durable thoughts but rather by introducing its specific opposition into spatial and temporal being. This basic and originary accent of mythical consciousness also dominates every particular division and connection within the whole of space and time. At the most primitive level of mythical consciousness, “power” and “holiness” adheres to a certain person or thing as their bearer.
