This article belongs, as a part of it, originally to the dissertation for the attainment of the Master (M.A.), titled "Myth and Parody : their structure and role in the litterary text", presented in november 1983, at the Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem/UNICAMP. The present text belongs to a chapter that develops the myth conceptualization. It tries to dinamically apprehend some of its basic aspects, in the transition from its original form, such as it occurs in the primitive and archaic societies, to its ideological succedaneous in the context of historic societies.
Myth; mythology; mythic consciousness; ideology; sacred and profane; narrative