From Ama Lur to the Anthropocene and Back: The Earth in Basque Mythology

Autor: Luis Garagalza
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Philosophies, Vol 7, Iss 1, p 12 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2409-9287
DOI: 10.3390/philosophies7010012
Popis: What I propose is that, by delving into the world of mythologies, there we might find some indications, helpful for understanding what is happening with the environment today. To do so, I will revisit a particular mythology from the South of Europe, an archaic (probably, a pre-Indo-European one), namely Basque mythology. Here, earth (lurra) appears as a maternal character (Ama-lur) and becomes, in a sense, divine in the figure of the goddess Mari, who occupied a central and predominant position in this cosmovision.
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