Archetypes in Chinese cosmogony and in 'Tao Te Ching' - Chinese cosmogony in the context of Classical ontology

The point of departure in the author's argumentation is the perception and understanding of the world by the archaic humans, i.e. the metaphorical, ar chaic, mythical way of thinking. He sees the Greek and Chinese philosophy a s deriving from mythical thinking, especially from the cosmogony and cosmol ogy of archaic nations. Together with Yung and Eliade he calls these roots of philosophy archetypes discerned by archaic ontology. It is through these archetypes (e.g. the archetypes of chaos or cosmos) that the representatio ns, metaphors and ideas in human consciousness originate. These "archetypal metaphors" as the external expressions of archetypes may differ in form, b ut their structure on archetypal level is the same.