Mythology Book

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DK US/LONDON AMERICANIZER Nathalie Mornu US EDITOR Kayla Dugger US EXECUTIVE EDITOR Lori Hand PROJECT ART EDITOR Duncan Turner I ...

PHILIP WILKINSON, CONSULTANT Philip Wilkinson has written more than 50 books on history, religions, the arts, and mythology. His ...

10 INTRODUCTION ANCIENT GREECE 18 Gaia first gave birth to her equal, Ouranos Origin of the universe 24 Rhea swaddled up a stone ...

NORTHERN EUROPE 130 From Ymir’s flesh the earth was made Creation of the universe 134 The ash of Yggdrasil is the noblest of tre ...

164 The Dagda was eighty years in the kingship of Ireland A complex god 165 As soon as he touched the earth, he was a heap of as ...

240 Begin a Deerskin Dance for it because everything will come out well from that The Woge settle a dispute 242 She was the shad ...

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W ith rare exceptions— such as a recently discovered Amazonian tribe, the Pirahãs—every human culture has developed its own myth ...

Homer’s epic stories—the Iliad and Odyssey—and Hesiod’s Theogony comprised the first and most authoritative attempts to weave th ...

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T he ancient Greeks first entered the territory now associated with them in about 2000 BCE, when Egypt was still a great power a ...

Euripides’s The Bacchae explores the dual nature of man—the rational versus the instinctual. Xenophon’s Anabasis contains the st ...

GAIA FIRST GAVE BIRTH TO HER EQUAL, OURANOS ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE US_018-023_Creation.indd 18 05/12/17 4:15 pm US_018-023_Creat ...