En quête d'Éden. L'errant et le nomade

Abstract

It seems that religious traditions unanimously admit that there is no paradise here below. The beautiful, orderly, harmonious dream world of Amerindians is always feasible, possible but never achieved ; this dream world must be elsewhere . Creation, life, are based on a rupture (considered like a sin) between man and the Creator and on discrimination between creatures. For so-called revealed religions, rupture, banishment and difference establish and/or legitimize a relationship of power between man and the world. The religions of natural societies develop a philosophy, an ethnic of reconciliation of the human being with the rest of creation. Thus, knowledge may be attained by dreams, shamanism and death