The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Myths & LegendsMacmillan, 1989 - 260 pages Fully indexed and containing lavish color illustrations and a wealth of line drawings, this is the most up-to-date, beautiful, and graphically useful reference of its kind on the market today. |
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Page 14
... Sumerians remained virtually intact . The Semites took over the Sumerian philosophy , adding to it features of their own . Until the conquest of Alexander the Great , King of Macedonia , in the fourth century BC , the religious trend ...
... Sumerians remained virtually intact . The Semites took over the Sumerian philosophy , adding to it features of their own . Until the conquest of Alexander the Great , King of Macedonia , in the fourth century BC , the religious trend ...
Page 136
... Sumerian story have been discovered which attribute the end of Sumerian civilization to ENKI's diversification of language . It has also been suggested that the myth is a mixture of references to the great ziggurats on which the ...
... Sumerian story have been discovered which attribute the end of Sumerian civilization to ENKI's diversification of language . It has also been suggested that the myth is a mixture of references to the great ziggurats on which the ...
Page 253
... Sumerian 87 , 108 Dzelarhons 196 Dzoavits 85 E Ea 196 ; and Abzu 168 ; and Ishtar 108 ; priest of 53 : Sumerian counterpart 86 ; son of 126 earth : Babylonian belief 126 ; destruction / renewal of 28 ; Germanic beliefs 71-2 ; influence ...
... Sumerian 87 , 108 Dzelarhons 196 Dzoavits 85 E Ea 196 ; and Abzu 168 ; and Ishtar 108 ; priest of 53 : Sumerian counterpart 86 ; son of 126 earth : Babylonian belief 126 ; destruction / renewal of 28 ; Germanic beliefs 71-2 ; influence ...
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According Achilles ancient Greeks animals APHRODITE Apollo ATHENA Aztec Baal Babylonian battle became believed birth brother Buddha Buddhist Canaanite century Chinese Christian creation creator deity Cuchulainn cult daughter dead death demon Dionysus divine dragon earth Egypt Egyptian Enki Enlil Ereshkigal evil father fertility fire flood Gaia gave Germanic mythology giant Gilgamesh gods Greece Greek mythology HADES head heaven Hera Heracles hero Hindu mythology Horus human husband immortal Inanna Inca Indians Indra Iranian Irish mythology island Izanagi killed king Kronos land legend legendary lived Loki Lugh magic mankind Marduk married Maya Mesopotamian Minos monster moon mountain myth name means night nymph ODIN Odysseus Osiris Ouranos pantheon POSEIDON primeval river Roman Roman mythology Rome ruler sacred sent serpent Shiva snake souls spirit Sumerian temple Tiamat took tree trickster Trojan Troy underworld Vanir Vishnu warrior wife woman worship Yahweh Zeus