[W]e may broadly say that the solutio is characterized by the transition from a state of concretely embodied polymorphous relatedness to one of monomorphous abstraction: a single order of being gains ascendancy, detaching itself from the opposing orders with which it had been intimately entangled, whereupon the latter are objectified or repressed. We have seen this process at work in the forward thrust of Greek patriarchy out of the uroboric womb of mythic culture. The separation was achieved in such a way that the polymorphous goddesses and gods of the older world were displaced by the solitary God of monotheism. The solutio is also evidenced in the post-Renaissance Projection of object-in-space-before-subject, wherein the subject is the transcendent ego that has risen above its worldly participation with other beings and now takes these others as objects appearing before it in empty space. We recognize this ego as the Cartesian cogito or thinking subject, the mental being that has abstracted itself from its body and has objectified that body. Phylogenetically, the solutio is expressed in humanity’s loss of contact with the rest of nature. The close connection with the animal, vegetable, and mineral spheres palpably felt in mythic and indigenous cultures gives way to an anthropocentric domination of the planet. And deeply related to the solutio is the change in attitude toward death discussed before: the primal transpermeation of life and death dissolves into an abstraction of life in denial of death.