Best of
Mythology

1986

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (Collected Worksl)


Joseph Campbell - 1986
    Campbell posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually at work within human beings as well and that a new mythology is implicit in this realization. He examines the new mythology and other questions in these essays which he described as a broadly shared spiritual adventure.

Favorite Folktales from Around the World


Jane Yolen - 1986
    Over 150 tales are compiled from Iceland to Syria, Cuba to Papua.Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By


Carol S. Pearson - 1986
    Pearson gives us a unique vocabulary to explore the link between ancient archetypes and our contemporary lives.Works like Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces have introduced readers to the significance of myth and archetype in our lives. Carol Pearson's bestselling The Hero Within takes us further by combining literature, anthropology, and psychology to clearly define, with insight and understanding, the six heroic archetypes that exist in all of us: the Innocent, the Orphan, the Wanderer, the Warrior, the Martyr, and the Magician. This substantially revised edition features new chapters that illuminate these archetypes, showing how to reach our fullest potential by achieving a balance between work, family, and the self."An excellent and useful book about the course our psychological and development can take.... {Pearson's} is an evolutionary archetypal psychology". -- Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., author of Goddess in Everywoman and Gods in Everyman

The Mythic Tarot


Juliet Sharman-Burke - 1986
    A complete package in a box that contains everything needed for the beginning tarot card user: a Tarot deck, an illustrated hardcover book explaining how to use the cards, and a silky cloth on which to lay the cards out.

Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion


R. Gordon Wasson - 1986
    R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known ethnomycologist who was one of the first to investigate how these mushrooms were venerated and employed by different native peoples, here joins with three other scholars to discuss the evidence for his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens, or "god generated within."

Tales of Pan


Mordicai Gerstein - 1986
    A collection of tales about the Greek god Pan and his relatives and some of the grand and silly things they did.

The Gospel of St. Mark: (Cw 139)


Rudolf Steiner - 1986
    There he absorbed the best aspects and views of pagan gnosis.Mark was able to learn how humankind came arose from the spiritual world and how the luciferic and ahrimanic forces are taken into the human soul. Mark was able to accept everything that was told to him by pagan gnosis concerning our human origin out of the cosmos when our planet came into being. But he could also see, especially from his perspective in Egypt, the strong contrast between our original human destiny and what humankind had become during his time.This lecture cycle, like the Gospel itself, is a work of art in its own right.This book is a translation of the German edition Das Markus-Evangelium (GA 139).

The Arthurian Encyclopedia


Norris J. Lacy - 1986
    Encyclopedia covering different versions of the Arthurian cycle, with brief entries for characters, authors, texts, places, and themes.

Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition


David R. Kinsley - 1986
    In this book David Kinsley, author of The Sword and the Flute—Kali & Krsna: Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology, sorts out the rich yet often chaotic history of Hindu goddess worship.

Axe Age, Wolf Age: A Selection From The Norse Myths


Kevin Crossley-Holland - 1986
    

Encyclopedia of Religion


Mircea Eliade - 1986
    This second edition, which is intended to reflect both changes in academia and in the world since 1987, includes almost all of the 2,750 original entries -- many heavily updated -- as well as approximately 600 entirely new articles. Preserving the best of Eliade's cross-cultural approach, while emphasizing religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture, this new edition is the definitive work in the field for the 21st century. An international team of scholars and contributors have reviewed, revised and added to every word of the classic work, making it relevant to the questions and interests of all researchers. The result is an essential purchase for libraries of all kinds.

The Witness


Robert Westall - 1986
    Stolen from a temple in Egypt, a mother cat finds her life changed forever when she shares the humble stable where the Christ Child is born.

From a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism, and Self


Catherine Keller - 1986
    

The Magic Ointment and Other Cornish Legends


Eric Quayle - 1986
    Michael Foreman has aimed to capture the magical content with atmospheric and witty illustrations. The author has drawn on Robert Hunt's "Popular Romances of the West of England" 1865 for this collection of re-tellings and added tales told to him by the present-day old folk of remote villages in West Penwith. Michael Foreman won the Kate Greenway Medal in 1982 and the Children's Book Award in 1984. His other picturemacs are "I'll Take You to Mrs Cole"; "Trick a Tracker" and "The Crab that Played With the Sea".

The Little People's Pageant of Cornish Legends


Eric Quayle - 1986
    Here are giants, little people, witches, devils, an outrageously naughty imp and a beautiful mermaid who enchants a handsome young Cornishman. Michael Foreman's evocative watercolors perfectly capture the wild splendor of the Cornish landscape and its ancient echo of magic and mystery.

The Game of the Pink Pagoda


Roger Moss - 1986
    Here, twenty-six tales, or "model games," evoke twenty-six different literary styles, from the Victorian novel to vintage mystery, Greek myth to science fiction, medieval romance to adventure story, each revolving around a pink pagoda in the English countryside. Here find stories of love, of friendship, of the supernatural, of legend...stories of adventure, murder and kidnapping...stories with a philosophical flavor--of good versus evil, of greed, of life itself. The Game of the Pink Pagoda is more than a book...Think of it as a small town, seen through the eyes of the different inhabitants, each with his or her own interpretation. Think of it as a game, where each time you sit down to play, the goals shift, the players change places, the opportunities are disguised. Think of it as a literary marvel, a collection of stories with an eclectic style all its own, as varied and different and unique as ourselves. Think of it as a quest, for truth, for riches for answers to questions that have always been asked. Think of it as an experience, a myriad tapestry that will change the way you look at your world forever. Think of the Pink Pagoda, and you'll begin to understand the Game--andwhy you are playing....

Myth, Cosmos, and Society: Indo-European Themes of Creation and Destruction


Bruce Lincoln - 1986
    

Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals


William G. Doty - 1986
    Extensively rewritten and completely restructured, the new edition provides further depth and perspective and is even more accessible to students of myth. It includes expanded coverage of postmodern and poststructuralist perspectives, the Gernet Center, mythic iconography, neo-Jungian approaches, and cultural studies, and it summarizes what is new in the study of Greek myth, iconography, French classical scholarship, and ritual studies. It also features a comprehensive index of names and topics, a glossary, an up-to-date annotated bibliography, and a guide to myth on the Internet.Presenting all major myth theorists from antiquity to the present, Mythography is an encyclopedic work that offers a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of myth. By reflecting the dramatic increase in interest in myth among both scholars and general readers since publication of the first edition, it remains a key study of modern approaches to myth and an essential guide to the wealth of mythographic research available today.

Emil W. Haury's Prehistory of the American Southwest


Emil W. Haury - 1986
    He skills were sharpened by the best mentors—Cummings, Douglass, Gladwin—and eventually Haury's excavations became the definitive work on the Mogollon and Hohokam cultures. . . . This work is a 'best of Haury' collection of many of his previously published works, with excellent introductory essays by colleagues and noted archaeologists—gathered into one, readable volume."—Choice

The Voyage Of Odysseus: Homer's Odyssey


James Reeves - 1986
    Retells the adventures of Odysseus as he makes his way home to his wife, Penelope, after ten years of fighting the Trojan War.

The Anugita: Being a Translation of Sanscrit Manuscripts from the Asvameda Paravan of the Mahabharata, and Being a Natural Adjunct to the Bhagavad Gita (Secret Doctrine Reference Series)


K.T. Telang - 1986
    

Masks, Transformation, and Paradox


A. David Napier - 1986
    They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in the experience of transitional states. In this far-reaching work, A. David Napier studies mask iconography and the role played by masks in the realization of change. The masks of preclassical Greece¯in particular those of the Satyr and the Gorgon¯provide his starting point. A comparison of Greek to Eastern and especially Indian models follows, and the book concludes with an examination of the interpretation of Hindu ideas in Bali that demonstrates the importance of ambivalence in mask iconography.

Handbook on Rajputs


A.H. Bingley - 1986
    

Taniwha


Robyn Kahukiwa - 1986
    The taniwha takes the boy on a journey through time and myth where he meets some amazing characters, gathering the earth's treasures as he goes.