Images and Symbols

Mircea Eliade

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode o... Lees meer

The Presence of Siva

S Kramrisch

• Hardcover | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology | nr. 35
• One of the three great gods of Hinduism, Siva is a living god. The most sacred and most ancient book of India, The Rg Veda , evokes his presence in it... Lees meer

The Myth of the Eternal Return

Mircea Eliade

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-schola... Lees meer

The Door in the Sky

Ananda K Coomaraswamy

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the tradition ... Lees meer

The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo

Horapollo Niliacus

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Written reputedly by an Egyptian magus, Horapollo Niliacus, in the fourth century C.E., The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo is an anthology of nearly two h... Lees meer

Pandora's Box

Dora Panofsky, Erwin Panofsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Pandora waas the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire... Lees meer

Malinowski and the Work of Myth

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impac... Lees meer

Ancient Christian Magic

Marvin W Meyer, Richard Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• This thought-provoking collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt shows the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supern... Lees meer

Doctor Illuminatus

Ramón Llull

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• For this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 19... Lees meer

Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period

Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough

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• This volume presents the most important portions of Erwin Goodenough's classic thirteen-volume work, a magisterial attempt to encompass human spiritua... Lees meer

The Legend of the Baal-Shem

Martin Buber

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• The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke directly to the most profound human concerns in all his works, including his discussions of Hasidism, a myst... Lees meer

Alone with the Alone

Henry Corbin

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• "Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was u... Lees meer

The Presence of Siva

S Kramrisch

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• One of the three great gods of Hinduism, Siva is a living god. The most sacred and most ancient book of India, The Rg Veda , evokes his presence in it... Lees meer

Creation and the Persistence of Evil

Jon D Levenson

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-pro... Lees meer

Passionate Enlightenment

Miranda Shaw

• Paperback | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for the sexual practices of its adherents, who st... Lees meer

Pandora's Box

Dora Panofsky, Erwin Panofsky

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Pandora waas the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire... Lees meer

Orpheus and Greek Religion

William Keith Guthrie

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their f... Lees meer

Hallaj

Louis Massignon

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Abridged from the four-volume The Passion of al-Hallaj, one of the major works of Western orientalism, this book explores the life and teaching of a f... Lees meer

The Gardens of Adonis

Marcel Detienne

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recas... Lees meer

The Gnostic Jung

C G Jung

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Gnosticism, together with alchemy, was for C. G. Jung the chief prefiguration of his analytical psychology. Jung did not simply interpret Gnostic text... Lees meer