Mambu

Kenelm Burridge

• Hardcover | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians... Lees meer

Images and Symbols

Mircea Eliade

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode o... Lees meer

The Presence of Siva

S Kramrisch

• Hardcover | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology | nr. 35
• One of the three great gods of Hinduism, Siva is a living god. The most sacred and most ancient book of India, The Rg Veda , evokes his presence in it... Lees meer

The Door in the Sky

Ananda K Coomaraswamy

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the tradition ... Lees meer

Amor and Psyche

Erich Neumann

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius's second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass , is one of the most charming fragments of classical l... Lees meer

The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo

Horapollo Niliacus

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Written reputedly by an Egyptian magus, Horapollo Niliacus, in the fourth century C.E., The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo is an anthology of nearly two h... Lees meer

The Road of Life and Death

Paul Radin

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• In this transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, anthropologist Paul Radin captured a poetic source of pro... Lees meer

Pandora's Box

Dora Panofsky, Erwin Panofsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Pandora waas the "pagan Eve," and she is one of the rare mythological figures to have retained vitality up to our day. Glorified by Calderon, Voltaire... Lees meer

Ancient Christian Magic

Marvin W Meyer, Richard Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• This thought-provoking collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt shows the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supern... Lees meer

Doctor Illuminatus

Ramón Llull

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• For this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 19... Lees meer

The Early Greek Concept of the Soul

Jan N Bremmer

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer ... Lees meer

Avicenna and the Visionary Recital

Henry Corbin

• Hardcover | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• In this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philos... Lees meer

Prometheus

Carl Kerényi

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at h... Lees meer

The Legend of the Baal-Shem

Martin Buber

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke directly to the most profound human concerns in all his works, including his discussions of Hasidism, a myst... Lees meer

Mystic Tales from the Zohar

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Zohar, or "brilliant light," is the central text of Kabbalah. In Jewish mystical tradition, it is the meeting of midrash (storytelling that expands on... Lees meer

The Survival of the Pagan Gods

Jean Seznec

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity--or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popular... Lees meer

Alone with the Alone

Henry Corbin

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• "Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition.... Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was u... Lees meer

Passionate Enlightenment

Miranda Shaw

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The crowning cultural achievement of medieval India, Tantric Buddhism is known in the West primarily for the sexual practices of its adherents, who st... Lees meer

The Great Mother

Erich Neumann

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• This landmark book explores the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. Here the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws ... Lees meer

Navaho Religion

Gladys Amanda Reichard

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude of the tribe members toward thei... Lees meer

From Ritual to Romance

Jessie L Weston

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as crucial to understanding "The Waste Land," Jessie Weston's book has continued to attract readers interested in ancient ... Lees meer

Orpheus and Greek Religion

William Keith Guthrie

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their f... Lees meer

The Glory of Hera

Philip Elliot Slater

• Hardcover | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The ancient Athenians were "quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers--all of whic... Lees meer

Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion

Jane Ellen Harrison

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of cl... Lees meer