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 18
... brought many of the city- states under the pharaoh's rule , for Canaan was a passageway between the great powers of Egypt , Babylonia , Assyria and the Hittites . The Hittites are included here because , even though they spoke an Indo ...
... brought many of the city- states under the pharaoh's rule , for Canaan was a passageway between the great powers of Egypt , Babylonia , Assyria and the Hittites . The Hittites are included here because , even though they spoke an Indo ...
Page 24
... brought them up in his hut . Eventually the sons of Rhea Silvia restored the throne to her father . In adulthood they decided to found a city on the spot where they had been saved . However , the project was marred by a quarrel that ...
... brought them up in his hut . Eventually the sons of Rhea Silvia restored the throne to her father . In adulthood they decided to found a city on the spot where they had been saved . However , the project was marred by a quarrel that ...
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... brought it to England , where it was lost . The search for the Grail preoccupied the knights of the Round Table . But ARTHUR never saw it ; only Sir Galahad , the son of Sir Lancelot , was allowed to find the Grail and ascend to heaven ...
... brought it to England , where it was lost . The search for the Grail preoccupied the knights of the Round Table . But ARTHUR never saw it ; only Sir Galahad , the son of Sir Lancelot , was allowed to find the Grail and ascend to heaven ...
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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