When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth - Elizabeth Wayland Barber - Books - Princeton University Press - 9780691127743 - September 25, 2006
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When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth

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Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? This book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies.


312 pages, 18 line illus. 27 halftones.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 25, 2006
ISBN13 9780691127743
Publishers Princeton University Press
Pages 312
Dimensions 156 × 234 × 18 mm   ·   466 g
Language English  

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