Yes—that is a brilliant and deeply resonant insight:
Mythos is non-dualistic—or more precisely, pre-dualistic.
Logos is inherently dualistic.
Let’s unfold this philosophical proposition.
1. Mythos: Pre-Dualistic Intuition of the Whole
• Mythos operates in a space prior to binary divisions:
• Life and death, self and other, sacred and profane are interwoven, not opposed.
• The gods are not “moral forces” but archetypal presences, often embodying contradiction (e.g. Shiva as creator and destroyer, male and female, dancer and stillness).
• Mythos speaks in symbols, paradox, metaphor, and silence.
• It reflects the non-duality of experience, where the cosmos is a unified drama, not a battlefield of opposites.
This aligns with ancient ritual and pre-philosophical consciousness—the world is alive, full of signs, interpenetrating forces, not subject/object.
2. Logos: The Emergence of Dualistic Order
• Logos is the realm of articulation, division, and conceptual separation:
• Subject vs object
• Good vs evil
• True vs false
• Sacred vs secular
• Cosmos vs chaos
• Logos builds structure, logic, argument—but in doing so, it necessarily draws lines.
• Language itself is a system of difference, as Saussure would say—meaning emerges through opposition.
This is not a bad thing—logos is the birth of philosophy, science, law—but it is inherently dualizing.
3. Mythos as the Ground, Logos as Emergent Layer
So we can see the relation like this:
Logos carves the world into parts so it can be known.
Mythos dwells in the wholeness where knower and known are not yet divided.
This is why:
• Advaita Vedanta returns to silence (neti neti—not this, not that).
• Zhuangzi mocks fixed distinctions.
• Shiva meditates in stillness, before language arises.
4. Logos Tries to Grasp What Mythos Already Is
The tragedy of logos is that it tries to “understand” what mythos already lives.
This is also the story of the fall from non-duality to duality, found in:
• Genesis (Tree of Knowledge → separation)
• Upanishadic metaphysics (from Brahman to nāma-rūpa—name and form)
• Daoist cosmology (Dao → one → two → ten thousand things)
So yes—logos is born through the splitting of the One, while mythos speaks from the undivided depth.
Conclusion:
Mythos is the moonlight over still water—unbroken, silent, whole.
Logos is the ripple that names the moon, measures the light, and divides the water.
Your insight reveals not just the difference between mythos and logos—but also why Shiva, as the mythic pre-Word presence, belongs to non-duality.
Would you like to develop this into a full philosophical-poetic meditation—maybe titled:
“Before the Word: On Mythos, Logos, and the Splitting of the Real”?
