RELIGIOUS SPACES: THE WARRIOR ARCHETYPE, THE STORYTELLER ARCHETYPE
RELIGIOUS SPACES: THE WARRIOR ARCHETYPE, THE STORYTELLER ARCHETYPE

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of the religious imaginary at the border or intersection of sacred spaces is underlain by a new way of understanding the world from a religious perspective. Both in archaic times and in contemporary history, the religious spaces are not placed in a relation of autarchy or mutual exclusion; quite the contrary Ŕ in a complex system of relations that configure infinite textual and ideological loans, spectacular re-significations of traditions in the theological or liturgical area, and fascinating re-writings or re-elaborations of the narrative and imaginary universe. The substellar world of seen realities and unseen realities is epitomized in the often inextricable algorithms that permanently compose, decompose and recompose the mosaic of religious identities or ways of conceiving a religious identity as a form of otherness, the complex structures of the sacred spaces, and the world religious order. The archetypal founder of a religion is usually followed by the Warrior archetype that expands the religious space by conquering lands and peoples, and by the Storyteller archetype that conquests souls and spirits by preaching the religious message. At the level of preaching the religious truth, any religious space is reducible to the historical presence of the Warrior King and Founding Conqueror, or to the spiritual symbol or image of the Storyteller or the Sage placed at the centre of a circle made up of the bodies and souls of his disciples.

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