Din-mitos ilişkisi "dinin kökenine dair bir inceleme"

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Mehmet Zafer İnanlar
Din-mitos ilişkisi "dinin kökenine dair bir inceleme"
Ankara Ü. Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Baki Adam, Prof. Dr.
Dinler Tarihi
Din Çalışmaları Metodolojileri / Teorileri
2002
107
Din = Religion ; Mitoloji = Mitology
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Since the times we can know, the religion as a most essential problem, keeps the human mind busy and constitutes the main subject of the achieves that can't cram in many bindings and of everytime and everywhere. In this our humble and small scale work we arrived the result that the human -in general- because of his creature, open and admirer for the transcendent; submits to supernatural powers as God or as others. The man's piety quality stands in front of us as a native, a priory reality. So, the myth is the border neighbour with the religion and seems many similarities between them. Myth represents an unavoidable fact which man can't be without it. İn an other expression it may be said that the myth left its place for the ideology today.An other conclusion we drew that knowing the origin of religion is impossible as we haven't any written proof on the past of humanity. So, all the words on this subject consist of personal speculations beyond realities. The question like: "There was myth or religion at first?" or "What was the first religious model?" will stay as mysteries for human race until the end of the world. Everyone as primitive people due to his psychological structure has mythological and mythogenical properties. İn spite of this, mustn't neglect the thematical smilarities in very much of myths. They take their source from associate mental heredity of humans. Religion and myth, have a near relation and are two very complicated facts.Because, the human mind due to its disposed being to the mythology, will seek archetypes to follow and will produce myths. Religion and myth are realities that will continue to survive every time, even if their images change. The civilisation history indicates that a more happy and peaceful world will shine in the horizon of myth and religion...