The Co-presence of Ritual, Symbol and Logos in Ancient Greek Culture: From Daimon-mana to Olympian God and to the Logos of Being

Abstract

Normally we think about the culture of a society as a pattern of meanings guided and shaped by Reason, by the Logos. This coauthored paper questions that approach, and puts in place the dynamic confluence of mimetic-ritual domains, symbolic-mythic domains and rational domains, using the shift of the old greek religion as a case study, represented by the myth-ritual of the Enyautos-Daimon, which is a reflection of a symbolic sacralization that starts in the nature and slides to the olympic religion, which represents a sacralization of the divine, expressed by Zeus, central God of the greek pantheon, from which shall arise the metaphysical-ontological constellation of meaning of the Logos of Being.