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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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...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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...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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...Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. This is a recording of the ...

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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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...The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the adventures of the characters would inspire children to achieve higher goals with integrity....

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...book, the adults in their lives are Olympians, while the chapter titled The Argonauts refers to Perseus, Apollo, Psyche, and similar figures of Greek mythology. Grahame's reminiscences, in The Golden Age and in the later Dream Days (1898), were notable for their conception of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult 'Olympians' who have wholly ...

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...lly shrugged. "Don't know yet. I'm into metaphysical stuff like you. Greek mythology, history. Of course literature and maybe the performing arts..." ...

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...herself by thinking it other than her own personal concoction at a different mythology the way Psalm 104 might have seemed original long after the Gre... ...uded herself in a sense that she was free from the powers of men, sexuality, mythology, motherhood, and all human concern that gnawed into one's entra...

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...All mythology and/or Hawthorne lovers unite! Here is a delightful collection of charming stories from Greek Mythology. This collection features some very popular characters like our beloved Jason, Ulysses, King Pluto and Theseus ...

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...thing new in musical composition and abstract specula- tion of an indecent mythology, or political contrivances and schemes of Government, and we do n...

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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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...al paradise ruled by demigods and goddesses. Nelson's obsession with Greek mythology was the core of his secret society. Science and technology had l...

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...topic. As an undergraduate I had taken a course with Philip Wheelwright based upon his manuscript of "The Burning Fountain" and became interested in mythology. I subsequently spent a year at a Danish folk college, whose headmaster gave daily lectures on the pagan mythology of the Nordic folk. Until the 1950s not much had been done on the relationship between Ibsen and N...

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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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..., that they were slowly learning what we are in process of forgetting. Greek mythology hardly admitted of the distinc tion between accidental homicid... ...ine Pla tonic writing. The spirit in which the popular rep resentations of mythology are denounced recalls Republic II. The virtue of piety has been...

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...reasons which it would be easy to give, reasons emanat- ing from the gross mythology of the ancients, no Grecian, 24 no Roman, could have conceived a ...

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...aginations of such aunts and uncles are affected by such rare visitations. Mythology may give us a hint. There is the story of Danae, for instance.” ...

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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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... 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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..... 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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... The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession—literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel ... he is best recognized for the works he did not write.[1] Many of the books were illustrated by Henry J. Ford, Lancelot Speed, and G. P. Jacomb-Hood also contributed some illustrations....

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...The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It offered a modernist approach, discussing religion dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon, rather than from a theological per...

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...of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! — I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling an... ...strils, (what kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new Mythology I don’t know,) it seems as if the earth had got a race now wort... ... has a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what f... ...ty in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy. Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it... ... wood; ground famous for the pranks of a demon not dis tinctly named in old mythology, who has acted a prominent and astounding part in our New Engla... ...arl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there. There we worked, revising mythology, rounding a fable here and there, and building castles in the a... ...t of the ground; this is Spring. It precedes the green and flowery spring, as mythology precedes regular poetry. I know of nothing more purgative of wi...

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...e, pending your Centuries, etc., I do earnestly desire the best book about mythology (if it be German, so much the worse; send a bunctionary along wit...

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...d of the Roman emperors as low as Severus; besides a great deal of the Heathen Mythology, and all the Metals, Semi Metals, Planets, and distinguished ...

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...Middleton, “is the observation of a student of the dictionary of classical mythology in the En- glish tongue.” “The Theatre is a matter of climate, si...

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...r pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense- fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hundred thousand Patriotic Men; and, ...

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...e: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the fol...

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... English speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A bri... ...re has been taken in rendering these finely shaded verbs. A glance at the mythology of this interesting people will place the import of this remark i... ..., but at the same time were connected with them. The basic idea in Finnish mythology seems to lie in this: that all objects in nature are governed by ... ... tain, by the wicked hostess of the dismal Sariola, he, like Atlas in the mythology of Greece, relinquishes the support of the heavens, thunders alon... ...s an object in nature. Wisdom and law, virtue and justice, find in Finnish mythology no protector among the gods, who trouble themselves only about th... ...d ing snows and piercing winds of the north. Lemmas is a god dess in the mythology of the Finns who dresses the wounds of her faithful sufferers, an... ...with hungry whirlpools, and angry waterfalls. Like Helheim of Scandinavian mythology, Manala, or T uonela, was considered as corresponding to the uppe... ... him over the Finnish Styx, like Charon, the son of Erebus and Nox, in the mythology of Greece. The second daughter of T uoni is Lowyatar, black and b... ...y escape and go forth to torture and slay the children of men; as in Hindu mythology, Kali (black) sits in judgment on the dead. Various other spiritu...

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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...

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...the notion of a spontaneous normal development of these activities is pure mythology. The natural, or native, pow- ers furnish the initiating and limi...

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...ations which had taken for its share the new humanity. He thought that the mythology of the Greeks was borrowed both from the Hebrew Scriptures and fr...

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...the little horse- shoes on the lower branches. Why has not England a great mythology? our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the great...

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...me, and professes astonishment on principle. But he has no leaning towards mythology; avows his contempt for what he calls “unregenerate poetry;” and ...