What did eliade mean by archaic man

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1. What were Mircea Eliade’s two axioms? How does the first one demonstrate how different he is in his thinking from Marx and the other reductionists? How does Eliade’s view bring him closer to the theory we started out with, that of Tylor and Frazer?

2. What did Eliade mean by “archaic man”? According to Eliade, what was the difference between the sacred and the profane for archaic peoples?

3. What was Eliade’s argument about symbols in Patterns in Comparative Religion?

4. What was Eliade’s argument in The Myth of the Eternal Return? What did he mean by the “terror of history”?

5. How, in Eliade’s view, did Judaism change the pattern of archaic peoples? How did this change, according to Eliade, later open the door for secular thought?

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