All about history book of myths and legends. ( PDFDrive )

KURENT Kurent was the Slavic god of wine. A popular myth tells how the first humans enjoyed an easy life in a valley irrigated b ...

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WEST AND CENTRAL ASIA ...

F or hundreds of years, the Bible was the main source of our knowledge of ancient Babylon, Ashur, and other great cities of the ...

INTRODUCTION WHATEVER A MAN MAY DO, HE IS BUT A REED IN THE WIND. Mesopotamian proverb the story of the great flood, a theme tha ...

Gilgamesh The main characteristics of Gilgamesh were his superhuman strength and great willpower traits symbolized in this stat ...

KEY CHARACTERS Although the epic is set in a real place, a city-state called Uruk in the Mesopotamian region, most of its major ...

The ancient Mongol and Turkic people were animists who believed in many spirits (tengri) that inhabited the natural world. Supre ...

THE TURKIC CREATION STORY In the Turkic version of the creation story, Tengri flew across the sky as a white goose, over an enor ...

The Mongol people of Central Asia – especially the group of tribes known as the Khalkha – developed a way of life that was hard ...

ANIMAL MYTHS OF MONGOLIA Swallow The myth emphasizes the swallow’s playful nature. The bird spends its time in joyful flight, ig ...

It was decreed that the winner of the race would become king and marry Sechan Dugmo. Gesar defeated Todong easily, and became th ...

THE BIRTH OF GESAR Dzeden was a shape-changer, who had transformed into a human girl when she inadvertently wandered far away fr ...

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I n isolation from other parts of the world for extended periods, India, China, and Japan developed their own distinctive early ...

INTRODUCTION IN THE VASTNESS OF MY NATURE I PLACE THE SEED OF THINGS TO COME; AND FROM THIS UNION COMES THE BIRTH OF ALL BEINGS. ...

Some of India’s earliest myths are derived from the Aryans, people of Central Asian origin who migrated to the region during the ...

VARUNA The god of the sky, Varuna was the celestial lawgiver. He was the master of the rules that governed sacrifices and of the ...

The Ramayana is one of the two great Indian epics written in the ancient Sanskrit language, and a seminal text in Hindu mytholog ...