When They Severed Earth from Sky

Author : Elizabeth Wayland Barber,Paul T. Barber

Paperback

Published : Monday 25 September 2006

ISBN : 9780691127743

Price : €35.10

Description

Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? This book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies.

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