{"id":2396,"date":"2025-05-09T09:02:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2396"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:56:57","slug":"glossary-mythos-logos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2396","title":{"rendered":"GLOSSARY – Mythos-Logos"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cMythos<\/em> and logos<\/em> go together, but their relationship is neither dialectical nor mythical; it is rather a mutually constitutive relationship. Were it logical, the spirit would be drowned in the logos<\/em>. Were it mythical, the logos\u00a0<\/em>would be reduced to the spirit. Put another way, there is no\u00a0logos<\/em>\u00a0without\u00a0mythos<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 of which the logos<\/em> is language \u2013 and there is no\u00a0mythos<\/em>\u00a0without logos<\/em> \u2013 of which myth is the foundation \u2026 Only the prat\u00eetyasamutp\u00e2da<\/em>, the radical relativity of all that is, can maintain the harmony without domination between the\u00a0mythos\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0logos<\/em>\u201d (Intellectual Autobiography<\/em>).<\/p>

The reunion between\u00a0mythos<\/em>\u00a0and logos<\/em> is one that must also take place\u00a0between subjectivity<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0objectivity<\/em>, between heart and mind, between rational thought and the spirit that flies free. This reunion is necessary so as to avoid falling either into the ancient submission to myth or into the submission of myth to logos<\/em>, i.e. falling into the present-day logo-monism<\/em>: \u201cReality is not given to us as\u00a0logos<\/em>, but rather offers itself to us as\u00a0mythos<\/em>, as that horizon against which we place our own idea of the world\u2026 Our world is given to us in\u00a0mythos<\/em>, and that world, equally ours, is discovered by the\u00a0logos<\/em>\u201d (Pensamiento cient\u00edfico y pensamiento cristiano,\u00a0<\/em>Madrid 1994). Panikkar describes this double faceted reality as follows:<\/p>

\u201cMyth is not the object of discourse, but the expression of a kind of\u00a0sui<\/em>\u00a0generis awareness<\/em>. Myth and knowledge go together… A living myth does not leave room for interpretation, inasmuch as there is no need for an intermediary. The hermeneutic of a myth is in no way myth, but rather its\u00a0logos<\/em> \u2026 The myth is transparent like light, and the mythic story is only the form, the covering with which the myth finds itself expressed, concealed, illuminated. This does not at all mean we have to disregard, much less belittle, the value of thinking and ignore the realm and inviolable rights of the logos. I simply mean that Man cannot be reduced to the logos, nor can awareness be reduced to reflexive consciousness\u201d (Myth, Faith and Hermeneutics)<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>

The theme of myth and its place in relation to religion and human thinking in general has greatly occupied Panikkar and has given rise to the publication of many of his works. He himself came to say, \u201cIt is necessary to rediscover the place and function of myth in human life and to situate rationality in the total human context.\u201d (Blessed Simplicity).<\/em><\/p>

An open dialogue between myth and\u00a0logos<\/em>\u00a0is the foundation of his dialogical dialogue as the force for opening oneself to the other and respectfully entering into\u00a0his<\/em>\u00a0reality.<\/p>

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MYTHOS-LOGOS, A NECESSARY RELATIONSHIP THAT CONSTITUTES BOTH \u201cMythos and logos go together, but their relationship is neither dialectical nor mythical; it is rather a mutually constitutive relationship. Were it logical, the spirit would be drowned in the logos. Were it mythical, the logos\u00a0would be reduced to the spirit. Put another way, there is no\u00a0logos\u00a0without\u00a0mythos\u00a0\u2013 of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5266,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2396\/revisions\/5266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}