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...An encyclopedia of Norse mythology based on the Project Gutenberg edition of Myths of the Norseman from the Eddas and Sagas by H.A.Guerber, with illustrations from Wikimedia Commons....

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.......................................................................................................................45 -3- An Encyclopedia of Norse Mythology Bertha.......................................................................................................................................................45 Bestla..................................................

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...An enclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology based on Project Gutenberg's edition of Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M.Berens with illustrations from Wikimedia Commons. ...

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........................................................................................................38 -3- Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology Alcmæon (alk-mee ́-on)...........................................................................................................................38 Alcmene (alk-mee ́-ne)..............................................

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...Why after thirty years, should Beckwith’s Hawaiian Mythology be reprinted? Why, for the last twenty-five years, have scholars and amateurs alike sought for either new or used copies of this book which has become a rarity? To begin with, it was the first, and is still the only...

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...This guide to the native mythology of Hawaii has grown out of a childhood and youth spent within sound of the hula drum at the foot of the domelike House of the Sun on the windy island of Maui. There, wandering along its rocky coast and sandy beaches...

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...apa and Wakea. 293 -- Genealogies. 307 -- Era of Overturning . 314 -- Mu and Menehune People. 321 -- Runners, Man-Eaters, Dog-Men. 337 -- Hawaiian Mythology - The Moikeha-La?a Migration. 352 -- Hawaiiloa and Paao Migrations. 363 -- Ruling Chiefs. 376 -- Usurping Chiefs. 387 -- Kupua Stories. 403 -- Trickster Stories. 430 -- Voyage to the Land of the Gods. 448 -- Riddlin...

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... suffering and great trials, and through it all an unquenchable longing to be free. This beautifully illustrated work is as layered and subversive as mythology itself. Based directly on authentic Buddhist texts, and informed with insights from psychology and comparative mythology, it takes a fresh look at how Buddhist women have been depicted by men and how they have depic...

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...of the long, hazardous journey is also very frequent in dreams, as also in mythology and literature, where it is a frequent image for the “journey” of... ...The Dreaming, the central con- cept behind all aspects of tribal life. The mythology of The Dreaming, often called the Dream Time when it is being use... ... myths project collective psychic mate- rial onto matter, whereas European mythology has been a pro- jection into space (Gardner, pp. 11-12). That ana... ... myth tells. There is an abundance of other books which present Aboriginal mythology in a form edited for the interest of non-Aborigines. These do not...

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...f the world. This chant remains as an authentic work or primitive literature. Moreover, it is one of the principal sources of information on Hawaiian mythology, early culture, political structure, and way of life. The original text of the Kumulipo was first printed in Honolulu in 1889 from a manuscript copy in the possession of King Kalakaua. Several translations were made...

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...egun research on the chant before 1938. She was perhaps already studying it twenty years earlier when she began planning another major work, Hawaiian Mythology, which was published in 1940 (reissued in 1970 by the University of Hawaii Press). In that book she refers several times to the Kumulipo, and gives translations of parts of it as worked out with specific Hawaiian in...

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... ecological winners, the successful human species, and its own religion, a mythology that justifies the new hierarchy and gives the winners the right ... ...as also been in the starry skies, the various strata of the heavens.Astral mythology is also fundamentally shamanistic oral tradition, with the starry... ...al and postlocal technosystems - developmental meritocracy - developmental mythology - developmental miracles - compulsion for novelty - finalization ... ...sense for rice farmers to believe in phii and sorcerers than technological mythology, at least it would be much cheaper.(66 Many of the informants say...

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...egulations as well as by the prevailing tax regime. As opposed to popular mythology, in almost all countries, options are granted at market price (i...

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...and the ego. His work is informed by his religious upbringing in a California church with a doctrine based in Hinduism. While riffing on the church’s mythology and iconography, Jesse’s art is in part a howl of dissent against its core ideas, or at least the way they have become codified. There’s a concept I once heard expressed by Guru Singh of Yoga West—one of the pre-emi...

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..... 69 -- The Sulphur Banks.. 69 -- Flocks Of Wild Geese.. 70 -- More Superstitious Fears Of Pele.. 70 -- Native Traditions Concerning Volcano.. 72 -- Mythology Of The Volcano.. 73 -- -- Volcano The Abode Of The Gods.. 73 -- Offerings To The Volcano Gods.. 73 -- Vengeance Of The Volcano Gods.. 74 -- Combat Between Kamapuaa And Pele.. 74 -- Destruction Of Keoua's Army.. 74...

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....” And to give lawyers fits. But that is getting ahead of ourselves. In Greek mythology, Procrustes had a bed to which he fitted its prospective occupan...

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... pull it back down to join another line of type. According to back shop mythology, these marvelous machines have ten thousand moving parts! Duri...