Tranformation of the myths of Chronos and Orpheus in "The man and the divine" by María Zambrano

Abstract

María Zambrano (1904-1991) was a poet and philosopher, and this is reflected in The man and the divine, an essay that invites us to return to Greece and recover the authenticity of our ancestors to realize that man not only has a reasoning dimension, but it has another dimension that reason cannot understand, in this spiritual case. The poet and great thinker she turns to mythology and the gods because without them there is an existential void and she takes refuge in different places of Greek mythology. The objective of the work is that through the origins of the myths of Cronus and Orpheus it is corroborated how the instance of the sacred still survives when it is found in the subconscious of the individual and demonstrate that trhough them she will try to search inside our space in life and bring them back to the present.