Mambu

Kenelm Burridge

• Hardcover | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians... 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 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

The Road of Life and Death

Paul Radin

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of pro... 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

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

The Legend of the Baal-Shem

Martin Buber

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• 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

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

Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period

Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough

• Hardcover | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• 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 Glory of Hera

Philip Elliot Slater

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The ancient Athenians were "quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers--all of whic... 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

Mambu

Kenelm Burridge

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians... Lees meer

Avicenna and the Visionary Recital

Henry Corbin

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• In this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philos... Lees meer

From Ritual to Romance

Jessie L Weston

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as crucial to understanding "The Waste Land," Jessie Weston's book has continued to attract readers interested in ancient ... Lees meer

The King and the Corpse

Heinrich Zimmer

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem ... Lees meer

The Glory of Hera

Philip Elliot Slater

• Hardcover | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The ancient Athenians were "quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers--all of whic... Lees meer

Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion

Jane Ellen Harrison

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of cl... 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

Dreams in Late Antiquity

Patricia Cox Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Dream interpretation was a prominent feature of the intellectual and imaginative world of late antiquity, for martyrs and magicians, philosophers and ... 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

Dionysos

Carl Kerényi

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. ... Lees meer

Religion in Roman Egypt

David Frankfurter

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• This exploration of cultural resilience examines the complex fate of classical Egyptian religion during the centuries from the period when Christianit... Lees meer