Kötelek és marionettek
Strings and Puppets

Summary/Abstract: In the chapter Ropes and Puppets of his volume of studies titled Mephistopheles and the Androgyne, the historian of religions, Fantastic fiction writer, philosopher and university professor of Romanian origins, Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) presents miraculous examples of the unity and cohesion of the world through examples inspired by Oriental philosophy, shamanism and Indian fakirism. His text, translated into Hungarian by Ildikó Novák, discusses the way in which the rope (and the string) appears in primitive and non-European cultures, its connecting role in the context of explaining the relationship between human existence and the world, and the function of the puppet as a metaphor for understanding the ties between the individual and the gods.

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