Author : Anne Birrell
Genre : History
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN : 0801861837
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In Chinese Mythology, Anne Birrell provides English translations of some 300 representative myth narratives selected from over 100 classical texts, many of which have never before been translated into any Western language. Organizing the narratives according to themes and motifs common to world mythology, Birrell addresses issues of source, dating, attribution, textural variants, multiforms, and context. Drawing on exhaustive work in comparative mythology, she surveys the development of Chinese myth studies, summarizes the contribution of Chinese and Japanese scholars to the study of Chinese myth since the 1920s, and examines special aspects of traditional approaches to Chinese myth. The result is an unprecedented guide to the study of Chinese myth for specialists and nonspecialists alike.

Author : T. W. Rolleston
Genre : Celts
Publisher : Career Press
ISBN : PSU:000051421816
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Author : Shakti M. Gupta
Genre : Hindu mythology
Publisher : Bombay : Somaiya Publications
ISBN : UVA:X000033480
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Glossary of Hindu mythological characters.

Author : R. Weerakoon
Genre : Mythology, Sri Lankan
Publisher :
ISBN : UOM:39015065319389
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Author : Stuart A. Kallen
Genre : Young Adult Nonfiction
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN : 9781420511451
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This volume looks at some of the popular myths of Africa and discusses their role in the culture and the values they reflect. The book also touches on how hip-hop music has its roots in African mythology. Readers will learn about creation myths, and the role of spirits and magic in African mythology and lore.

Author : Andrew Lang
Genre : Social Science
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN : 9783748157021
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After the heavy rain of a thunderstorm has washed the soil, it sometimes happens that a child, or a rustic, finds a wedge-shaped piece of metal or a few triangular flints in a field or near a road. There was no such piece of metal, there were no such flints, lying there yesterday, and the finder is puzzled about the origin of the objects on which he has lighted. He carries them home, and the village wisdom determines that the wedge-shaped piece of metal is a "thunderbolt," or that the bits of flint are "elf-shots," the heads of fairy arrows. Such things are still treasured in remote nooks of England, and the "thunderbolt" is applied to cure certain maladies by its touch. As for the fairy arrows, we know that even in ancient Etruria they were looked on as magical, for we sometimes see their points set, as amulets, in the gold of Etruscan necklaces. In Perugia the arrowheads are still sold as charms. All educated people, of course, have long been aware that the metal wedge is a celt, or ancient bronze axe-head, and that it was not fairies, but the forgotten peoples of this island who used the arrows with the tips of flint. Thunder is only so far connected with them that the heavy rains loosen the surface soil, and lay bare its long hidden secrets.

Author : George William Cox
Genre : Indo-Aryans
Publisher :
ISBN : UIUC:30112001607552
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Author : David A. Leeming
Genre : Mythology
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780197548264
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"This book treats myths from all parts of the word, first from a cultural and then from a more comparative perspective. How do myths of the ancient Egyptians or Greeks, for instance, reflect the realities of the Egyptian and Greek cultures? When compared, how do they reveal certain universal themes or motifs that point to larger transcultural issues, such as the place of the human species in creation or the nature of deity as a concept? This book is organized around the universal or near universal motifs: deities, creation, the flood, the trickster, and the hero. Myths from Greek, Egyptian, Norse, Native American, African, Polynesian, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, and other cultures are retold and treated as reflections of the cultures that "dreamed" them and then are compared and discussed in such a way as to expose universal significance, creating a world mythology"--

Author : Thomas Bulfinch
Genre : Fiction
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN : 9783734087936
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Reproduction of the original: Bulfinch ́s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

Author : Hartley Burr Alexander
Genre : Social Science
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN : 9780486444154
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This fascinating and informative compendium of Native American lore recounts the continent's myths chronologically and region-by-region, offering a wide range of nomadic sagas, animist myths, cosmogonies and creation myths, end-time prophecies, and other traditional tales. Legends include stories of sun worship, trickster pranks, the ghost world, and secret societies.