The language of myths: an idealistic revision of the symbolic function as a method of approximation to reality

Abstract

It is very difficult nowadays to find genuine interest in the analysis and study, both on a functional and structural level, of the myths and their content. On one hand we believe that everything has already been said about this topic. Over time, the myth has been reduced, at the best of scenarios, to a mere literary category devoid of any transcendent meaning. On the other hand we have lost the ability to understand the old symbolic language that was once our mother tongue.
The intellectual synthesis that demands the production of myths represents a gigantic evolutionary leap for the consciousness of mankind, and it must to claim full authorship and property of that production, since human is the only being able to create such a rich and complex product as the myth.
To understand the true meaning encoded within centuries of mythological writings it is first necessary to understand the language in which it was designed, a language that goes far beyond any language code, that language that represents our first form of existence: The Language of Symbols.

AKADEMOS, Year 10, Vol. 2, No 27, July-December 2016: 61-75