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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| An Introduction | |
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| What Is Myth? | |
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| Language and Myth | |
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| Time and Myth | |
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| History and Myth | |
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| The Civic Myth | |
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| Morality and Myth | |
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| The Sense of the Sacred | |
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| The Cast of Characters | |
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| The Greek and Roman Pantheon | |
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| The Norse Pantheon | |
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| The Gods of India | |
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| The Egyptian Pantheon | |
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| The Hawaiian Pantheon | |
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| The Aztec Pantheon | |
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| Beginnings - The Creation Myths | |
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| Creation Myths of India | |
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| The Creation Myth of Iran | |
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| The Norse Creation Myth | |
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| Greek Creation Myths | |
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| Creation Myths of Africa | |
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| Creation Myths of Egypt | |
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| The Creation Myth of Finland | |
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| The Chinese Creation Myth | |
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| The Creation Myth of Japan | |
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| The Polynesian Creation Myths | |
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| Creation Myths of the Americas | |
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| The Babylonian Creation Myth | |
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| The Biblical Creation Stories | |
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| The Talmudic Creation Story | |
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| "The Creation" | |
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| Some Notes on the Creation Myths | |
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| The Earliest Times | |
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| The Biblical Fall | |
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| The Talmudic Fall | |
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| The Story of Poia (Blackfoot Indian) | |
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| The Four Ages of Man (India) | |
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| The Five Ages of Man (Greece) | |
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| The Five Suns (Aztec) | |
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| The Five Worlds (Navajo) | |
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| North American Indian Myths of Emergence | |
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| Three Stories of Maui the Trickster (Polynesia) | |
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| Prometheus and Epimetheus (Greece) | |
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| The Origin of Medicine (Cherokee) | |
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| Murile and the Moonchief (Kenya) | |
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| The Human Race Is Saved (Iroquois) | |
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| The Flood Myths | |
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| The Story of Noah | |
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| Manu and the Fish (India) | |
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| Utnapishtim (Babylonia) | |
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| The Flood Myth of Hawaii | |
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| Tata and Nena (Aztec) | |
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| Deucalion (Greece) | |
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| North American Flood Myths | |
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| The Flood Myth of the Incas | |
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| The Flood Myth of Egypt | |
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| Tales of Love | |
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| Greek and Roman Love Myths | |
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| Two Peruvian Love Stories | |
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| Angus Og (Scotland and Ireland) | |
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| Algon and the Sky-Girl (Algonquin Indian) | |
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| Morality Tales from the Myths | |
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| Morality Tales from the Mahabharata (India) | |
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| Anansi the Spider (West Africa) | |
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| Greek Morality Tales | |
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| Four Parallel Stories | |
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| The Story of Two Brothers (Blackfoot Indian) | |
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| The Story of Two Brothers (Egypt) | |
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| Bellerophon (Greece) | |
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| Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (Genesis 39) | |
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| Some Brief Myths of the Hero | |
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| The Story of Siegfried (Norse/Germany) | |
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| Theseus (Greece) | |
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| Hiawatha Tarenyawagon (Iroquois) | |
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| The Myth of Sisyphus (Greece) | |
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| The Journey to the Underworld and the Path of Death | |
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| Ishtar in the Underworld (Babylonia) | |
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| Marwe in the Underworld (Kenya) | |
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| Savitri (India) | |
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| Pare and Hutu (New Zealand) | |
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| Sayadio in the Land of the Dead (Iroquois) | |
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| The Spirit Bride (Algonquin) | |
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| Osiris and Isis (Egypt) | |
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| Blue Jay in the Land of the Dead (Chinook) | |
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| The Greek and Roman Afterlife | |
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| Peruvian Death Myths | |
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| Socrates on the Greco-Roman Afterlife | |
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| Persian (Zoroastrian) Death Myths | |
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| Nachiketas (India) | |
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| Jewish Death Myth | |
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| Tibetan Death Myths | |
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| Baldur (Norse) | |
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| The Death of Moses (The Talmud) | |
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| The End - Visions of the Apocalypse | |
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| How Rudra Destroys the Universe (India) | |
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| The Persian Apocalyptic Myth | |
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| The Islamic Apocalyptic Myth | |
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| Maitreya (Tibet, Korea, Mongolia) | |
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| Ragnarok: The Twilight of the Gods (Norse) | |
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| North American Apocalyptic Myths | |
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| The Old Testament | |
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| The New Testament | |
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| Views of Myth and Meaning | |
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| Parallel Myths and Ways of Interpreting Them | |
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| The Discovery of Parallel Myths | |
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| Myth as a History of Prehistory: The Matriarchal Theory | |
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| Transitional Thinking in the Interpretation of Myth | |
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| Psychological Theories of Parallelism in Myth | |
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| A Modern Nonpsychological Approach: Structuralism | |
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| Philosophical Perspectives on Myth | |
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| The "History of Religions" School of Myth | |
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| Myth - Yours, Mine, and Ours | |
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| Modern Questions of Faith | |
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| The Demythologization of Judeo-Christian Culture | |
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| The Legitimacy of the Supernatural | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |