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 117
... lived around 700 BC , the first men were contemporaries of Kronos and lived in a Golden Age , free from worry and fatigue . Indeed , Kronos was probably a deity worshipped before the arrival of the Greeks . He would therefore have had ...
... lived around 700 BC , the first men were contemporaries of Kronos and lived in a Golden Age , free from worry and fatigue . Indeed , Kronos was probably a deity worshipped before the arrival of the Greeks . He would therefore have had ...
Page 156
... lived in Palestine in the third century . In his myth , which takes place in Libya , St George found that the local people were obliged to sacrifice a virgin each day by feeding her to a dragon . To relieve them of this horrific burden ...
... lived in Palestine in the third century . In his myth , which takes place in Libya , St George found that the local people were obliged to sacrifice a virgin each day by feeding her to a dragon . To relieve them of this horrific burden ...
Page 189
... lived to beget the second race of frost giants . Bertha In Germanic mythology , an Aesir goddess , usually identified with FRIGG . She lived in the hollow of a mountain and watched over the souls of unbaptized children . She also ...
... lived to beget the second race of frost giants . Bertha In Germanic mythology , an Aesir goddess , usually identified with FRIGG . She lived in the hollow of a mountain and watched over the souls of unbaptized children . She also ...
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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