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