Sacred History

As it is well known, ἱστoρἱα  means investigation, and presupposes notions such as historical fact and necessary sequence of facts, which are also implied in traditional myth. When we deal with the question of origins, a sequence of facts has a first member which is final or literal, (exomorphical in our notation) say, a creator god, a Demiurgos (or any representation that we choose to be final, beyond which we cannot go). The sequence of facts that form our narrative of how the Demiurgos created the world is not homogeneous, for the necessity of passing from fact 1 to fact 2, is of a different character than the rest of the sequence. The actions of a supposed divinity are not of the same ontological, epistemological, or praxiological order than the human ones, so they do not belong to a critical historical investigation, which needs homogeneous sequences in order to make meaningful narratives. The notion of a sacred history, in the sense of a history as a divine plan, is contradictory, for the sacred excludes the critical thinking. On the other hand, history cannot go back beyond fact 2 of any narrative account of the past: in fact, historical writing has only sense when it includes just endomorphisms.