The transpersonality of the Soul makes the understanding of what we call "personal identity", the egoic mask narrative, impossible without the understanding of the group identity to which we belong. That is why it is important to know mythopoetics, the symbolic construction of identity of our culture.
Myths are transpersonal in social terms (we could say: transocial), and that is what the concept of "Mythologem", coined by Karl Kerenyi, illustrates. The term designates the common elements in myths belonging to different traditions, like the tales of the Sacred Child, the descent of the hero to the underworld, the marriage of the King-God to the Earth Goddess, and so on. [for more on this see my little essay on mythologems: https://construccionsimbolicaidentidadhumana.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-is-mythologem.html]
The transpersonality of the masks of gods and their actions has produced all kinds of confusion. The superimposition of one myth on another previous one, which is also associated with a particular ritual that is common to both, has produced all kinds of confusion. Such is the case of the superposition of the Syrian ritual of the death and resurrection of Adonis and the Christian ritual of the death and resurrection of Christ, which in the case of Phrygia is superimposed on that of the death and resurrection of Attis, all of them celebrated in March with the arrival of spring, and in the same places.
The Universal Soul is transpersonal. The different forms it takes, that is, the identities with names and forms of the Universal Soul, are transpersonal.
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