Análisis semiológico del mito como patrimonio colectivo e individual en cuatro niveles de interpretación

Abstract

Myth’s analysis fossilizes it and disconnects it from its original function and its deeper meaning. Starting from the testimony of the Australian Aboriginal People have been identified four possible levels of meaning for myths, and using semio- logical method, we have as a goal to find out if this interpretation process could be common to every culture having in the myth an immaterial collective heritage. We propose a name for these levels of analysis and meaning, providing exam- ples from various cultures, from diverse times and territories. The result is a veri- fication of the most intimate level in the meaning of myth, being aware that scien- tific methods always will keep us away from the more personal and living layer of myth interpretation, the one that constitutes the individual patrimony.