Download or read book The Myth of the Eternal Return written by Mircea Eliade and published by Bollingen. This book was released on 1954 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A founding work of the history of religions. Eliade references a number of cultures and draws on scholarship published in half a dozen European languages to render both intelligible and compelling the religious expressions and activities of a wide variety of archaic and "primitive" religious cultures. Eliade argues that understanding this view is necessary to enrich our contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. --