Transformations of myth through time / Joseph Campbell.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Original language: English Publisher: New York : Perennial Library, [1990]Copyright date: Edition: 1st edDescription: 263 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0060551895
  • 9780060551896
  • 0060964634
  • 9780060964634
  • 9500421291
  • 9789500421294
  • 0809591332
  • 9780809591336
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Transformations of myth through time.DDC classification:
  • 291.1/3 20
  • 201.3 23
LOC classification:
  • BL311 .C278 1990
NLM classification:
  • 291.13 C188t
Online resources:
Contents:
1. In the beginning : origins of man and myth -- 2. Where people lived legends : American Indian myths -- 3. And we washed our weapons in the sea : gods and goddesses of the neolithic period -- 4. Pharaoh's rule : Egypt, the exodus, and the myth of Osiris -- 5. The sacred source : the perennial philosophy of the East -- 6. The way to enlightenment : Buddhism -- 7. From id to ego in the Orient : Kundalini yoga, part I -- 8. From psychology to spirituality : Kundalini yoga, part II -- 9. The descent to heaven : the Tibetan book of the dead -- 10. From darkness to light : the mystery religions of ancient Greece -- 11. Where there was no path : Arthurian legends and the Western way -- 12. A noble heart : the courtly love of Tristan and Isolde -- 13. In search of the Holy Grail : the Parzival legend.
Summary: A collection of thirteen lectures, all given near the end of Joseph Campbell's life, that examine the great sweep of mythological development around the world and across the ages.
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1. In the beginning : origins of man and myth -- 2. Where people lived legends : American Indian myths -- 3. And we washed our weapons in the sea : gods and goddesses of the neolithic period -- 4. Pharaoh's rule : Egypt, the exodus, and the myth of Osiris -- 5. The sacred source : the perennial philosophy of the East -- 6. The way to enlightenment : Buddhism -- 7. From id to ego in the Orient : Kundalini yoga, part I -- 8. From psychology to spirituality : Kundalini yoga, part II -- 9. The descent to heaven : the Tibetan book of the dead -- 10. From darkness to light : the mystery religions of ancient Greece -- 11. Where there was no path : Arthurian legends and the Western way -- 12. A noble heart : the courtly love of Tristan and Isolde -- 13. In search of the Holy Grail : the Parzival legend.

A collection of thirteen lectures, all given near the end of Joseph Campbell's life, that examine the great sweep of mythological development around the world and across the ages.

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