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

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

Navaho Religion

Gladys Amanda Reichard

• Hardcover | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude of the tribe members toward thei... 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 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

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

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

The Wisdom of the Serpent

Joseph Lewis Henderson, Maud Oakes

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book t... 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

Prometheus

Carl Kerényi

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at h... 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

Myth, Religion, and Mother Right

Johann Jakob Bachofen

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The Swiss thinker J. J. Bachofen is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or "mother right," but that concept is only a small part of hi... Lees meer

The Survival of the Pagan Gods

Jean Seznec

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity--or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popular... Lees meer

Alone with the Alone

Henry Corbin

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

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

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

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

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

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

Malinowski and the Work of Myth

• Hardcover | 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

Navaho Religion

Gladys Amanda Reichard

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude of the tribe members toward thei... 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