According
to Herder, language is a register of the evolution of the human soul, and due
to the fact that our first innerization of the world was theological, our
dictionaries are pantheons.[1]
Let’s put aside for the moment the theological part of the argument, for
theological myths are later elaborations of myths of the anima mundi, whose main figure is not the god, but the ancestor,
and translate the idea to the theory of morphisms.
1 1. Our first exomorphisms were in the symbolic spheres of the ancestors, gods and the supernatural.
2 2. Those exomorphisms were endomorphized,
rendered familiar through the use of metaphors. With the example of the eye of Ra. The sun is exomorphic, belongs to the realm of literal representations of the god Ra, but is vitalized through the metaphor of the eye, and comes closer to our vital
experience. Exomorphisms must have a minimal endomorphic connection in order to
be referents at all.
3 3. With the passage of time they become
completely endomorphic and acritic concepts, id est, part of a dictionary.
Our
dictionaries are not strictly pantheons, neither geological strata of the
process of mythologization, for languages have a shorter life span than the mythologization process (as we see in
Christianism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism), but are simply a web of endomorphisms.
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