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 119
... legend , it was always night at the beginning of time and the Indian tribes were forced to live in perpetual fear of attack from wild animals . Life was so hard that the brothers Kuat and Iae decided that , no matter how dangerous the ...
... legend , it was always night at the beginning of time and the Indian tribes were forced to live in perpetual fear of attack from wild animals . Life was so hard that the brothers Kuat and Iae decided that , no matter how dangerous the ...
Page 144
... legend of Orestes then becomes very complicated , and indeed there are several versions of subsequent events . Older treatments of the story tend to accept the justice of his revenge . But later authors are less comfortable with the ...
... legend of Orestes then becomes very complicated , and indeed there are several versions of subsequent events . Older treatments of the story tend to accept the justice of his revenge . But later authors are less comfortable with the ...
Page 164
... legend about the flooding of the world . Ta'aroa is said to have become angry with mankind , so he raised the level of the sea , leaving only the scattered islands of the Pacific protruding above the water . See Flood , p.110 and ...
... legend about the flooding of the world . Ta'aroa is said to have become angry with mankind , so he raised the level of the sea , leaving only the scattered islands of the Pacific protruding above the water . See Flood , p.110 and ...
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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