Hello, since we're in a mythological mood, and I'm currently doing some personal inquiry into ghosts that has overlapped into myths I came upon this word: mythopoeic (myth-making). Wikipedia defines this term as "pre-philosophical thought" differing from current modern thought which is "philosophical, impersonal, abstract, and scientific". How might the moq define mythopoeic? Here's a quote with a link to the site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythopoeic_thought "The term mythopoeic means "myth-making" (from Greek muthos, "myth", and poiein, "to create"). A group of Near Eastern specialists used the term in their 1946 book The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East, later republished as the 1949 paperback Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man.[1] In this book's introduction, two of the specialists, Henri and Mrs. H. A. Frankfort, argue that mythopoeic thought characterizes a distinct stage of human thought that differs fundamentally from modern, scientific thought. Mythopoeic thought, the Frankforts claim, was concrete and personifying, whereas modern thought is abstract and impersonal: more basically, mythopoeic thought is "pre-philosophical", while modern thought is "philosophical".[2] Because of this basic contrast between mythopoeic and modern thought, the Frankforts often use the term "mythopoeic thought" as a synonym for ancient thought in general." SA Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
