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| Purposes and Definitions | |
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| The Study of Mythology | |
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| What is Myth Historically? | |
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| The Rise of Mythology | |
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| Mythology During the Enlightenment Mythology in the 20th Century | |
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| Mythology Today | |
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| Reading Mythology | |
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| Works Cited and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Creation Myths | |
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| The Birth of Order | |
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| Classifying Cosmogonic Myths | |
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| Types of Creation Myths | |
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| Reading Creation Myths | |
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| "Amma and Nummo Create the World" (Dogon/Nigeria) | |
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| "The Creation, from The Eddas" (Norse/Iceland) | |
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| "From Chaos to King Zeus" (from the Theogony/Greek) | |
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| "Out of the Blue" (Modern retelling from Iroquois sources) | |
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| "The Creation of Ulligara and Zalgarra" (Sumerian/Iraq) | |
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| "Creation Myth from the Vishnu Purana" (Hindu/India) | |
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| "Genesis: The Creation Account" (Hebrew Scriptures) | |
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| "The Popul Vu" (Maya/Yucatan and Guatemala) | |
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| Works Cited and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Female Divine | |
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| The Great Goddess Archetypal Psychology | |
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| Goddess as Literary Character Types | |
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| Reading the Female Divine | |
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| "The Fire" Goddess (Hawaiian/Hawaii) | |
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| "White Buffalo Calf Woman" (Brule Sioux/North American Great Plains) | |
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| "The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi" (Sumerian/Iraq) | |
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| "A Taste of Earth" (modern retelling of Vietnamese materials/Vietnam) | |
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| "Kali Beheaded" (modern retelling of Hindu materials/India) | |
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| "Calisto and Arcas" (from Ovid's Metamorphosis; Roman/Italy) | |
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| "On the Origin of the World" (Gnostic/Egypt) | |
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| Works Cited and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| The Male Divine | |
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| The Prehistory of God | |
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| The "Sorcerer" of Trois Freres | |
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| The "Shaman" of Trois Freres | |
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| Images of the Masculine Reading the Male Divine | |
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| "Bhagavad Gita" (Teachings 1, 2, 6, and 11; Hindu/India) | |
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| "Enki and Ninhursanga" (Sumerian/Iraq) | |
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| "Orunmila Gives the Orishas Their Powers and His Friendship with Eshu" (Yoruba/Nigeria) | |
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| "Thor's Dual with Hrungnir" (Norse/Iceland) | |
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| "Quetzalcoatl Rescues the Precious Bones and Discovers Corn" (Aztec/Mexico) | |
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| Works Cited and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Trickster Myths | |
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| The Embodiment of Ambiguities Reading Trickster Myths | |
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| "Why We Tell Stories about Spider" (Ga/West Africa) | |
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| "Ajapa, Aja the Dog, and the Yams" (Yoruba/Nigeria) | |
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| "How Coyote Placed the Stars" (Wasco/Oregon) | |
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| "Coyote Man and Saucy Duckfeather" (modern myth; Peter Blue Cloud) | |
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| "The Trouble with Rose Hips" (Lipan Apache/American Southwest) | |
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| "Old Man Coyote Meets Coyote Woman" (Blackfoot/South-Central Canada, North-Central U.S.) | |
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| "The Treasures of the Gods" (Norse/Iceland) | |
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| "The Seven Great Deeds of Ma-ui" (Oceania) | |
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| "Prometheus" (from the Theogony/Greek) | |
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| "Pa Pandir, or Daddy Moron" (Malaysian) | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Works Cited and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Sacred Places | |
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| The Grounding of Mythology Gulliford's | |
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| Nine Categories of Sacred Places Deloria's | |
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| Four Categories of Sacred Sites | |
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| Sites of Longing and Fear | |
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| Combining Interpretive Strategies | |
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| "The Zuni and the Grand Canyon" (modern Zuni account/Arizona) | |
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| "The Emergence" (ancient Zuni account/Arizona) | |
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| "Bighorn Medicine Wheel" (modern account/Wyoming) | |
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| "The Medicine Wheel" (medicine man Hyemeyohsts Storm/Wyoming) | |
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| "Sacred Landforms in Japan (Japan) | |
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| "The Mountain of the Lotus and the Fan" (Japan) | |
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| "Yoshoji and the Goddess Fuji" (Japan) | |
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| "Ten Thousand Treasure Mountain" (Yao/China) | |
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| "Kobo Stories" (Buddhist/Japan) | |
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| "The Waters of Eternal Life" (Jewish/Italy, 11th c.) | |
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| "The Castle in the Lake" (Bon/Tibet) | |
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| "The Cormorants of Utrost" (Norway) | |
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| "The Areca Tree" (modern retelling of ancient Vietnamese materials) | |
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| "Biriwilg Becomes a Painting" (Aboriginal Australia) | |
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| Works Cited and Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Index | |