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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 | |