The Myths of the New World: a Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
Title | The Myths of the New World: a Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Garrison Brinton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1868 |
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New Myth, New World
Title | New Myth, New World PDF eBook |
Author | Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Total Pages | 484 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780271046587 |
The Nazis' use and misuse of Nietzsche is well known. In this pioneering book, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal excavates the trail of long-obscured Nietzschean ideas that took root in late Imperial Russia, intertwining with other elements in the culture to become a vital ingredient of Bolshevism and Stalinism.
The Myths of the New World: a Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
Title | The Myths of the New World: a Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Garrison Brinton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Myths of the New World
Title | The Myths of the New World PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Garrison Brinton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | Indian mythology |
ISBN |
The World of Myth
Title | The World of Myth PDF eBook |
Author | David Adams Leeming |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 379 |
Release | 1992-02-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0199762724 |
Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh--these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing common concerns that each society voices in its own idiom. Whether an Egyptian story of creation or the big-bang theory of modern physics, myth is metaphor, mirroring our deepest sense of ourselves in relation to existence itself. Now, in The World of Myth, Leeming provides a sweeping anthology of myths, ranging from ancient Egypt and Greece to the Polynesian islands and modern science. We read stories of great floods from the ancient Babylonians, Hebrews, Chinese, and Mayans; tales of apocalypse from India, the Norse, Christianity, and modern science; myths of the mother goddess from Native American Hopi culture and James Lovelock's Gaia. Leeming has culled myths from Aztec, Greek, African, Australian Aboriginal, Japanese, Moslem, Hittite, Celtic, Chinese, and Persian cultures, offering one of the most wide-ranging collections of what he calls the collective dreams of humanity. More important, he has organized these myths according to a number of themes, comparing and contrasting how various societies have addressed similar concerns, or have told similar stories. In the section on dying gods, for example, both Odin and Jesus sacrifice themselves to renew the world, each dying on a tree. Such traditions, he proposes, may have their roots in societies of the distant past, which would ritually sacrifice their kings to renew the tribe. In The World of Myth, David Leeming takes us on a journey "not through a maze of falsehood but through a marvellous world of metaphor," metaphor for "the story of the relationship between the known and the unknown, both around us and within us." Fantastic, tragic, bizarre, sometimes funny, the myths he presents speak of the most fundamental human experience, a part of what Joseph Campbell called "the wonderful song of the soul's high adventure."
The Myths of the New World
Title | The Myths of the New World PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel G. Brinton |
Publisher | Good Press |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 2019-11-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
"The Myths of the New World" is a treatise on the symbolism and the mythology of the Native Americans of the United States. Scholar and author Daniel G. Brinto poses the questions, "What are man's earliest ideas of a soul and a God, and of his own origin and destiny? Why do we find certain myths, such as of a creation, a flood, an after-world; certain symbols, as the bird, the serpent, the cross; certain numbers, as the three, the four, the seven—intimately associated with these ideas by every race? What are the laws of growth of natural religions? How do they acquire such an influence, and is this influence for good or evil? Such are some of the universally interesting questions which I attempt to solve by an analysis of the simple faiths of a savage race."
The Myths of the New World
Title | The Myths of the New World PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Garrison Brinton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 307 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | Indian mythology |
ISBN | 9780893413262 |