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World mythology : a very short introduction

Leeming, David Adams, 1937- author

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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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Mythology.
• ISBN: 9780197548264

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