When They Severed Earth from Sky
How the Human Mind Shapes Myth
Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? How could anyone think that mortals like Perseus, Beowulf, and St. George actually fought dragons, since dragons don't exist? Strange though they sound, however, these myths did not begin as fiction. This absorbing book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies. Geologists' interpretations of how a volcanic cataclysm long ago created Oregon's Crater Lake, for example, is echoed point…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Barber, Paul T.
- ISBN: 978-0-691-12774-3
- EAN: 9780691127743
- Produktnummer: 19416804
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.6 cm 477 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 477
Über den Autor
Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Professor of Linguistics and Archaeology at Occidental College, is the author of The Mummies of Ürümchi (W. W. Norton), Women's Work (W. W. Norton), and Prehistoric Textiles (Princeton). Paul T. Barber, a research associate with the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Vampires, Burial, and Death (Yale).
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