Non-linear time and philosophies of the All do not generate mythic filiation

Evidence

We can guess that energy circulated by philosophies of the One in the West reinvigorated these imperatives of filiation. Wherever time was not conceived of as linear-India, for example-or where philosophers contemplated not the One but the AlI, the founding myths did not generate the process of filiation.* Conceptions of the origins of the world (its creation) were not corroborated in a genealogical sequence that would have rooted the species (race or people) in this first act. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 280

Categorization

• QUESTION: The footnote critique invites checking: is the India comparison accurate, and does the linear-time/filiation correlation hold across other cases?
• XREF: connects to: Western myth and epic are structured by linear filiation toward a projected end — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 279; Genuine alterity is reciprocal, whereas mythic Otherness denies reciprocity — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 652; Myth and epic enact being as closed filiation, excluding the other. (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Genuine alterity is reciprocal, whereas mythic Otherness denies reciprocity #complicates (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 652