When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. BarberPublish date:2006-09-25Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691127743ISBN-10:691127743UPC:9780691127743Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Folklore & MythologySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCSQWKQR3W
When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth
Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? How could anyone think that mortals like Perseus, Beowulf, and St. George actually fought dragons, since dragons don't exist? Strange though they sound, however, these "myths" did not begin as fiction.
This absorbing book shows that myths originally transmitted real...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691127743ISBN-10:691127743UPC:9780691127743Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Folklore & MythologySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCSQWKQR3W
Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Professor of Linguistics and Archaeology at Occidental College, is the author of The Mummies of Ürümchi (W. W. Norton), Women's Work (W. W. Norton), and Prehistoric Textiles (Princeton). Paul T. Barber, a research associate with the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Vampires, Burial, and Death (Yale).
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