When They Severed Earth from Sky

Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. Barber

Princeton University Press, 2006

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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.

ISBN-13
9780691127743
ISBN-10
0691127743
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2006
Publication date
2006-09-25
Pages
312
Dimensions
234x156x18
Weight
466