The Myths of the New World: a Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
Author: Daniel Garrison Brinton
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniel Garrison Brinton
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780271046587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Nazis' use and misuse of Nietzsche is well known. In this pioneering book, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal excavates the trail of long-obscured Nietzschean ideas that took root in late Imperial Russia, intertwining with other elements in the culture to become a vital ingredient of Bolshevism and Stalinism.
Author: Daniel Garrison Brinton
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 328
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Adams Leeming
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1992-02-27
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 0199762724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh--these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing common concerns that each society voices in its own idiom. Whether an Egyptian story of creation or the big-bang theory of modern physics, myth is metaphor, mirroring our deepest sense of ourselves in relation to existence itself. Now, in The World of Myth, Leeming provides a sweeping anthology of myths, ranging from ancient Egypt and Greece to the Polynesian islands and modern science. We read stories of great floods from the ancient Babylonians, Hebrews, Chinese, and Mayans; tales of apocalypse from India, the Norse, Christianity, and modern science; myths of the mother goddess from Native American Hopi culture and James Lovelock's Gaia. Leeming has culled myths from Aztec, Greek, African, Australian Aboriginal, Japanese, Moslem, Hittite, Celtic, Chinese, and Persian cultures, offering one of the most wide-ranging collections of what he calls the collective dreams of humanity. More important, he has organized these myths according to a number of themes, comparing and contrasting how various societies have addressed similar concerns, or have told similar stories. In the section on dying gods, for example, both Odin and Jesus sacrifice themselves to renew the world, each dying on a tree. Such traditions, he proposes, may have their roots in societies of the distant past, which would ritually sacrifice their kings to renew the tribe. In The World of Myth, David Leeming takes us on a journey "not through a maze of falsehood but through a marvellous world of metaphor," metaphor for "the story of the relationship between the known and the unknown, both around us and within us." Fantastic, tragic, bizarre, sometimes funny, the myths he presents speak of the most fundamental human experience, a part of what Joseph Campbell called "the wonderful song of the soul's high adventure."
Author: Daniel Garrison Brinton
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780893413262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Barry Powell
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2019-09-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780205730520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Deviating from the typical thematically organized mythology anthology, Barry Powell organizes this text first by geography and then by chronology. By doing this the text becomes a 'history of the world,' showing us how different peoples understood their environment and its challenges through myth.
Author: Daniel G. Brinton
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-27
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Myths of the New World" is a treatise on the symbolism and the mythology of the Native Americans of the United States. Scholar and author Daniel G. Brinto poses the questions, "What are man's earliest ideas of a soul and a God, and of his own origin and destiny? Why do we find certain myths, such as of a creation, a flood, an after-world; certain symbols, as the bird, the serpent, the cross; certain numbers, as the three, the four, the seven—intimately associated with these ideas by every race? What are the laws of growth of natural religions? How do they acquire such an influence, and is this influence for good or evil? Such are some of the universally interesting questions which I attempt to solve by an analysis of the simple faiths of a savage race."
Author: Scott A. Leonard
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Myth and Knowing is by far the most comprehensive world mythology textbook.