Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge In 12 volumes Macmillan and Co. And London 1894. The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion by Sir James George Frazer is a seminal work in anthropology and comparative religion. First published in 1890, it explores the common elements of religious belief and myth across different cultures. Frazer’s central thesis is that human belief...
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge In 12 volumes Macmillan and Co. And London 1894. The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion by Sir James George Frazer is a seminal work in anthropology and comparative religion. First published in 1890, it explores the common elements of religious belief and myth across different cultures. Frazer’s central thesis is that human belief...
ANU Press, 2023. — 484 p. — ISBN: 9781760465902. Sanskrit narrative is the lifeblood of Indian culture, encapsulating and perpetuating insights and values central to Indian thought and practice. This volume brings together eighteen of the foremost scholars across the globe, who, in an unprecedented collaboration, accord these texts the integrity and dignity they deserve. The...
Dorling Kindersley, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 1465473378; ISBN13: 978-1465473370. Explore eighty of the world's greatest myths and characters, from the gods of Greek mythology to the Norse heroes, retold and explained with engaging text and bold graphics. From early creation stories to classical hero narratives and the recurring theme of the afterlife, experience each myth and...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901. – XLVIII, 400 p. Sir John Rhys (21 June 1840 – 17 December 1915) was a Welsh scholar, Fellow of the British Academy, Celtic scholar and the first Professor of Celtic Language at Oxford University. Born at Ponterwyd in Ceredigion, he was the son of miner and farmer Hugh Rees and his wife. Rhys was educated at schools in Brinchwith, Pantyffinnon and...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2014. J.R.R. Tolkien completed his translation of Beowulf in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition includes an illuminating written commentary on the poem by the translator himself, drawn from a series of lectures he gave at Oxford in the 1930s. His creative attention...
London: Doubleday, 2019. — 112 p., illus. The Perfect Stocking Filler for Nature Lovers! ‘To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt...these are great things. Every field should have a hare.’ The hare, a night creature and country-dweller, is a rare sight for most people. We know them only from legends and stories....
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972. Preliminaries The Egyptian benu and the Classical phoenix A Coptic text on the phoenix Analysis of the myth of the phoenix The name phoenix Lifespan and appearances The age of the phoenix and the Great Year. Hesiod, frg. 304 Hesiod, frg. 304, the Great Year and the phoenix. The appearances Hesiod, frg. 304, and the phoenix as symbol of the soul The...
Dover Publications, 2005. — 384 p. This fascinating and informative compendium of Native American lore was assembled by one of twentieth-century America's premier ethnographer/anthropologists. Hartley Burr Alexander recounts the continent's myths chronologically and region-by-region, offering a remarkably wide range of nomadic sagas, animist myths, cosmogonies and creation...
Counterpoint press, 2012. — 365 p. Fairy tales are one of our earliest cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke similar sensations: At times they are beautiful and magical, at others spooky and sometimes horrifying. Maitland argues that the terrain of fairy tales is intimately connected to the mysterious secrets and silences, gifts and perils....
Routledge, 1993. — 248 p. While Kendall's revision dates to 1993, Sykes wrote the bulk of this in 1952 and in the intervening years, new discoveries and translations have made some parts of some entries inaccurate. The book is in standard, alphabetical format, with entries on deities ranging from a brief sentence to a couple of paragraphs. Their roles in myths are necessarily...
Thames and Hudson, 2016. — 272 p. A hands-on traveler's guide to the enthralling tales of Greek mythology, organized around the cities and landscapes where the events are set. The Greek myths have a universal appeal, beyond the time and physical place in which they were created. But many are firmly rooted in specific landscapes: the city of Thebes and mountain range Cithaeron...
Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlag, 1984. — XVI + 525 S. — ISBN: 3-520-36801-3 "Mythen sind Geschichten von Göttern", sagt J. de Vries im Vorwort zu seiner Forschungsgeschichte der Mythologie, und wenn diese Definition auch stimmen mag, so stellt sie doch eine beträchtliche Einschränkung des Begriffs Mythos dar. Im hier vorgelegten "Lexikon der germanischen Mythologie" soll...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 441 p. Klezmer: Music, History, and Memory is the first comprehensive study of the musical structure and social history of klezmer music, the music of the Jewish musicians' guild of Eastern Europe. Emerging in 16th century Prague, the klezmer became a central cultural feature of the largest transnational Jewish community of modern times - the...