Abstract

This study employed an examination of the nature of mythic entities to determine the conditions on transtemporal identity in the mythic world. The nature of mythic entities was discovered by investigating two processes that are native to the mythic world, the processes of transformation and magic. It was proposed that although the mythic conception of identity is different from the philosophical, it would, nonetheless, if taken as veridical, illuminate the philosophical problem of transtemporal identity, and suggest a viable strategy for its solution. This hypothesis was confirmed in that it was found that the mythic understanding of identity proved suggestive with respect to the issue of absoluteness or sortal relativity in transtemporal identity, and the problems of dualism and fission in personal identity