Cultural rebirth

This is significant as an exciting context from which individuals may benefit. However its scope, as possibly recognized only with the hindsight of historical commentary, may well beyond the capacity of any to recognize in the moment [resources]:

Renaissance as a metaphor: Here the focus is on cultural rebirth, after a period of decay or some form of "dark ages". The European Renaisance is a prime example. Such metaphorical use is also employed to promote a new renaissance, as in the case of European renewal (see Renaiisance Europe), to counteract the erosion of quality of life. The term has also been applied to zones in which a form of collective rebirth takes place (see Renaissance Zones)
Aesthetic rebirth: A typical characteristic of rebirth is in relation to art, due to the rich cross-fertilization of insights and perspectives. Although this may be more immediately evident, it is to be noted that it is characterized by presenting works for view, with little attention to their effect on the observer -- it is the art that is reborn and only secondarily the appreciator thereof.
Mytho-poesis: This is the larger story that is told, through epic works of art, to explain and give coherence to a period or a sense of a larger temporal context. It offers links to the distant past and serves to bind its relevance to the present. It offers symbols to which people may relate and which provide a framework for stories of psychological significance to the extent that the symbols are activated in the individual psyche. Many births refer to the birth process with specific exemplars recognized as "twice-born" or "thrice-born" (as with Hermes Trismegistus). For Louise Cowan (Epic as Cosmopoesis. , 1992): "If we read epic poems with attentiveness, putting aside preconceived ideas about the dominance of the patriarchal virtues, we see in them something of a palimpsest, indicating that nations are not only 'twice-' but 'thrice-born'"