Damascus-SANA
In his recently published book, Myths of the East, Creation-Immortality, researcher Eid Al-Darwish seeks to present a comprehensive and comprehensive idea of the myth that the peoples of the East exported to the entire world and had the most prominent role in the emergence and spread of this literary genre.
Al-Darwish presents through his book major epics originating from the East, such as the legend of Gilgamesh, Mesopotamian myths, the legend of the Babylonian formation, the myth of Ugaritic Akhas, the myths of China, Japan and India in creation and immortality, as well as the myths of the Pharaohs and the Book of the Dead, which included the teachings that a person must memorize before his death.
In his book, Al-Darwish approaches the method of research, investigation and analysis by studying these myths that have reached us throughout history to reach important life and intellectual issues in human life and its transformations, investigating the philosophy of human thinking in which all aspects of life are mixed with the story of creation and immortality that has accompanied human thought since the beginning of human knowledge And the formation of awareness and the diversity of cultures.
In the book, Al-Darwish sees that myth is the essence of human thought on which knowledge and science depend, after it embodied the details of his life and prompted him to suggest the near and far future. Some of its details were based on his imagination and what is in it to enhance the mind’s ability to experiment and discover.
Al-Darwish asserts that every trace made by the ancient man stems from his thinking and perceptions on which he established ideological and intellectual matrixes and life rituals. Sculpting, writing, pictures, statues, and inscriptions found in dwellings and temples all integrate with the human view of life in every time and place.
And research in the field of myth, according to what was mentioned in the book, leads us to the fine threads between legacies, rituals, religions, and in the details of other life. There are many stories that man put in place according to what he possesses of knowledge and questions that he had in mind of actions, images, phenomena and cosmic observations, so the myth had an important role in the lives of peoples But the monotheistic religions limited their exaggerations and answered many of their questions.
The book, which is located in 161 pages of large size, issued by Tutol House for printing, publishing and distribution, documented multiple historical stages in a manner that focused on document, analysis, moral and methodological compatibility, and intellectual exchange, leading to the civilizations, knowledge and visions that man presented.
It is noteworthy that the author of the book, the researcher Eid Al-Darwish, was born in Raqqa in 1963. He holds a degree in philosophy and psychology. He has many articles in local and Arab newspapers. He has published five books in the field of philosophical and intellectual studies, including Imam Al-Ghazali between reason and transmission and the philosophy of Sufism in religions.
Muhammad Khaled Al-Khidr
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