Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook343 pages4 hours
Myths of Creation
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
Unavailable in your country
Unavailable in your country
About this ebook
How are discarded scientific hypotheses different from myths? This is just one of the many surprising questions raised and answered in Myths of Creation, a study of myths, religious beliefs and scientific theories about the origin and the creation of the universe. Philip Freund's pioneering methodology has ensured that Myths of Creation remains today an outstanding work to rank alongside other classics in its field such as The Golden Bough and Hero of a Thousand Faces. Freund estimates that there are over 500 flood myths told by over 250 tribes or peoples on our planet. In gathering such creation stories from almost every country and historical period - highlighting their contrasts as well as their startling similarities - Freund reveals the workings of the human mind and imagination. He breaks down the myths of creation into their various categories, providing the reader with examples of each as well as summarising analytical perspectives where these occur. He provides clear and highly accessible explanations of the relevant theories of thinkers such as Freud and Jung, Frazer and Malinowski. Can myths be determined as primitive history based on literal fact? Are they racial dreams of profound sexual meaning? Or are they merely tales told for entertainments sake? Myths of Creation provides an unparalleled guide to humankind's multitudinous explanations of how this world came into being. Established as a standard reference work, it is a must for any mind, body, spirit bookshelf.
Unavailable
Related to Myths of Creation
Related ebooks
The Apnea Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFURY Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBaudelaire the Damned: A Biography Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dynasts by Thomas Hardy (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell (In Full Color) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhence and Whither: On Lives and Living Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mouseiad and other Mock Epics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Histories of Herodotus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAstrophel and Stella: “Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIncidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Spirit of Japan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsO Paradise: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fetters of Rhyme: Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDelphi Collected Works of Vita Sackville-West (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIdeas of Good and evil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSilverpoints Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Woman Called Moses: A Prophet for Our Time Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Winter Phoenix: Testimonies in Verse Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5At the End of Sleep Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Thought House of Philippa Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stranger in the Mask of a Deer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJim Crace Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Social Science For You
All About Love: New Visions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Men Explain Things to Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Quick, & Magnetic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Close Encounters with Addiction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific, and Strategic Prayer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Denial of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Women Don't Owe You Pretty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Human Condition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Verbal Judo, Second Edition: The Gentle Art of Persuasion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Myths of Creation
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
1 rating0 reviews