Oriental Mythology
10 best books like Oriental Mythology (Joseph Campbell): The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, The Poetic Edda, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas, The Golden Bough, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image, Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World, The Language of the Goddess, Pagan Celtic Britain
| Author | Robert Graves |
| ISBN | 0374504938 |
The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who...
| Author | Snorri Sturluson |
| ISBN | 0292764995 |
The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life...
| Author | Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson |
| ISBN | 0140136274 |
Tiw, Woden, Thunor, Frig. these ancient northern deities gave their names to the very days of our week. Nevertheless, most of us know far more of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and the classical deities. Recent researches in archaeology and mythology have added to what was already a fairly consistent...
| Author | Hélène A. Guerber |
| ISBN | 0486273482 |
Over the centuries, Northern mythology has exerted much influence on Western customs, language, and literature. Its principal theme of the perpetual struggle of the beneficent forces of nature against the injurious, and its twin characteristics of dark tragedy and grim humor, tinge much European...
| Author | James George Frazer |
| ISBN | 0684826305 |
Frazer a klasszikus brit etnológia utolsó képviselője (1854-1941). Élete és munkássága korszakot jelent a néprajztudomány történetében. … Az Aranyágban arra tesz kísérletet, hogy felvázolja az emberi gondolkodás fejlődését a mágia, a vallás egymást követő...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0192835890 |
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the...
| Author | Anne Baring |
| ISBN | 0140192921 |
A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when,...
| Author | Barbara C. Sproul |
| ISBN | 0060675012 |
This was a big DID NOT FINISH for me. I love mythology, and I've been trying to broaden my understanding of it. I picked up this book hoping to get a taste of various mythologies from the perspective of each people's creation myth. What I got was a lot of long-winded, rambling, dry overviews.
I didn't...
| Author | Marija Gimbutas |
| ISBN | 0500282498 |
Gimbutas' seminal (I use the word ironically) work is a beautiful, yet flawed, artifact. The plethora of images showing carvings and etchings on neolithic pottery and statuary, for the most part, is astounding and worth the price of the book alone. Gimbutas provides a taxonomy of these neolithic (and...
| Author | Anne Ross |
| ISBN | 0897334353 |
Although some aspects of pre-Roman and pre-Christian beliefs remain shrouded in mystery, the author of this comprehensive, profusely illustrated volume contends that neither the Roman invasion of Britain nor the coming of Christianity eliminated pagan religious practice. Dr. Anne Ross writes...
| Author | Patricia Monaghan |
| ISBN | 0875425739 |
دوستانِ گرانقدر، زنده یاد بانو <مانوگان> پژوهشِ بسیار خوب و نسبتاً کاملی را انجام داده است
بسیاری از موضوعاتی که در این کتاب آورده شده با اخبار و...
| Author | J.F. Bierlein |
| ISBN | 0345381467 |
"Unusually accessible and useful . . . An eye-opener to readers into the universality and importance of myth in human history and culture."--William E. Paden, Chair, Department of Religion, University of Vermont
For as long as human beings have had language, they have had myths. Mythology...
Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine
| Author | David A. Leeming |
| ISBN | 0195104625 |
From the fertile earth mothers of the ancient world to the modern revival of interest in Wicca, or witchcraft, images and tales of the Female Divine have flourished and waned, intimidated, comforted, and inspired women and men from time immemorial. In Goddess, authors David Leeming and Jake Page gather...
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
| Author | Heinrich Robert Zimmer |
| ISBN | 0691017786 |
This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legends, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian art and thought, and it seeks to make...
The Age of Chivalry (Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology)
| Author | Thomas Bulfinch |
| ISBN | 0486436535 |
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The Universal Myths: Heroes, Gods, Tricksters and Others
| Author | Alexander Eliot |
| ISBN | 0452010276 |
Crossing the boundaries of time, region, and culture, universal myths have provided inspiration and guidance for countless generations--laying a foundation for the religious, social, and political heritage of nations and peoples since the beginning of time. Here is a rich and absorbing survey...
The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology
| Author | Paul Radin |
| ISBN | 0805203516 |
The myth of the Trickster--ambiguous creator and destroyer, cheater and cheated, subhuman and superhuman--is one of the earliest and most universal expressions of mankind. Nowhere does it survive in more starkly archaic form than in the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebago Trickster...
The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History
| Author | Mircea Eliade |
| ISBN | 0691017778 |
This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian emigre-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-86). Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures & drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen...
Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the Mind: The Authorized Biography
| Author | Stephen Larsen |
| ISBN | 0892818735 |
The fascinating biography that illuminates the man whose work changed modern culture
• Gives a complete biographical view of Campbell's life and a personal perspective of who he was through the voices of his friends and colleagues
• Written by two of Campbell's preeminent students...
