β Scribed by Bierlein, J.F.
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
An entertaining and thought-provoking look at the common threads woven through the world's greatest myths -- and the central role they have played through time.;Invitation to myth: Introduction -- Cast of characters -- Myths: Beginnings-Creation myths -- Earliest times -- Flood myths -- Tales of love -- Morality tales from the myths -- Four parallel stories -- Some brief myths of the hero -- Journey to the underworld and the path of death -- End-Visions of the apocalypse -- Modern readings of myth: Views of myth and meaning -- Parallel myths and ways of interpreting them -- Myth-Yours, mine, and ours.
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