Being and Time in Africa Mythical-Poetical Tradition

Abstract

In the article, main provisions of African mythology, those about being and time, are considered. It is displayed that time is understood as an aggregate of specific phenomena and occurrences; time spreads not linearly from past to future, but from present to past. All doings of a man are explored through the prism of mythological thinking. Authors' attention is centered at the substantial peculiarities of a man's being that spreads in different dimensions of time, i.e. of past (macro chronos) and of present (microchronos).