The author, whose fields of philosophy and psychology of religion, here presents a work that deals with the psychological interpretation of the earliest textual evidence of the history of religion. On the origin of religion is based on the observation that these early texts are often surprisingly similar, and the gods and heroes have to consist almost identical adventure caves have broken up, hang killed and heaven and earth are braced apart, land is planted and peopled .
basis of the investigation are the worship songs of the Rig-Veda, which are to strike with an age of 3500 years of creation myths, in contrast to the later, the dominant mythology of redemption dramas soteriology and eschatology. The stories that were incurred prior to the religious upheaval of the time axis, are central in the book.
The working assumption that Strohm then tries to prove the basis of the Rig-Veda and the involvement of similar myths that described each of creation can not be understood as a physical phenomenon can be, but as psychological, so intimately human. While Freud and
already modified Bishop Norbert interpreted in its tracks, these myths as early childhood drama productions, However, this culture located in a very late stage of development, Strohm is assumed that the descriptions reflect an earlier phase of human becoming. According to him, the myths are about the life span between birth and about the end of the second year.
Thus, for reading the Rig-Veda as the history of the child's conquering the world in the first years of life, what Strohm by putting verses of the poem again and again to the findings of modern infant and young child psychology opposite, showing amusing and with a little spring. It seems the author particularly the works of Paul Thieme on Rig-Veda and Daniel N. his star is bound to infant psychology.
be, for example, the treasures of gold and sparkling jewels, the creation account in accordance with the breakup of the cave will be visible in this, an eloquent testimony of the acquisition of optical perception. Escaped the darkness, the world contoured as a brilliant, almost unbelievable treasure. It is therefore a direct description of children's behavior and experience, the treasures are the other and are at the beginning of development, they are not banned as future promise in a hereafter, as in later redemption myths.
The world of Indra, Yama, Agni and Visnu, of which the book is primarily represents itself as a magical and infantile world, in the state of uncertainty and small body size be experienced and visual perception and language are not learned. Accordingly, this cosmos is populated by dwarves, the lame and the mountains are still not. Milk and honey are the favorite food of the divine is small and the tricycle driven to the wedding. Source and recipient for the former accounts of creation are the layers of the human soul, which correspond to the earliest experiences, early childhood before the onset of amnesia.
basis of the oldest Indian scriptures and their intuitive and poetic psychology, comparative mythologies have used other advice and decoded according to the same pattern. Both Egyptian, Babylonian, Germanic, Greek and Mesoamerican creation myths and the Upper Paleolithic cave drawings are incorporated funny and make the book an interesting read for anyone interested in myths.
A very extensive bibliography on the subjects of mythology and developmental psychology complement this successful book.
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