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 Myth of the Eternal Return

Mircea Eliade

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-schola... Lees meer

Navaho Religion

Gladys Amanda Reichard

• Hardcover | 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

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

The Wisdom of the Serpent

Joseph Lewis Henderson, Maud Oakes

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book t... 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

Malinowski and the Work of Myth

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impac... 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

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

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

Creation and the Persistence of Evil

Jon D Levenson

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• This paperback edition brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a thought-pro... Lees meer

Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period

Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough

• Hardcover | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• This volume presents the most important portions of Erwin Goodenough's classic thirteen-volume work, a magisterial attempt to encompass human spiritua... Lees meer

The Presence of Siva

S Kramrisch

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• 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

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 Origins and History of Consciousness

Erich Neumann

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal s... Lees meer

Mambu

Kenelm Burridge

• Paperback | 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

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

The King and the Corpse

Heinrich Zimmer

• Paperback | Engels | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem ... 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

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