Great Figures of Mythology - Peter Clayton
KORTE INHOUD
The gods and heroes in ancient mytholgy and religion influenced every aspect of the lives of their worshippers, not only devotional practices but the siting of cities, the planting of crops and the naming of children.
This book, an alphabetical compendium of the great figures of mytholgy, explores the gods and heroes of such diverse cultures as Egypt, Greece and Rome, Babylonia and Mesopotamia, Celtic Europe and Scandinavia.
Although the particular forms of expression given to this legendary beings varies according to the cultures from which they derive, there are many striking similarities between the mythology and legends of widely differing peoples. The need felt by primitive man to try and impose some form of cosmic order on his threatening world gave rise to deities for everycontingency, some aimable, others hostile and needing to be placated. The sun god is almost invariably male, whether the Egyptian Re or the Greek Apollo; and is often the king of the gods. The deities of the moon and earth tend to be ...
This book, an alphabetical compendium of the great figures of mytholgy, explores the gods and heroes of such diverse cultures as Egypt, Greece and Rome, Babylonia and Mesopotamia, Celtic Europe and Scandinavia.
Although the particular forms of expression given to this legendary beings varies according to the cultures from which they derive, there are many striking similarities between the mythology and legends of widely differing peoples. The need felt by primitive man to try and impose some form of cosmic order on his threatening world gave rise to deities for everycontingency, some aimable, others hostile and needing to be placated. The sun god is almost invariably male, whether the Egyptian Re or the Greek Apollo; and is often the king of the gods. The deities of the moon and earth tend to be ...
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