Encyclopedia of World MythologyBarnes & Noble Books, 2001 - 320 pages |
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... India : Bharat . FREEDOM AND SPONTANEITY THERE ARE TWO broad sources for Indian myths : the Vedic literature , which carries the divine authority of being descended from Brahma and Vishnu through lineages of spiritual teachers and whose ...
... India : Bharat . FREEDOM AND SPONTANEITY THERE ARE TWO broad sources for Indian myths : the Vedic literature , which carries the divine authority of being descended from Brahma and Vishnu through lineages of spiritual teachers and whose ...
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... Indian migrants . Although there is no firm evidence of a Sinhalese presence before the second century BCE , chronicles relate that the first Sinhalese speakers , thought to have originated in North India , arrived in around the sixth ...
... Indian migrants . Although there is no firm evidence of a Sinhalese presence before the second century BCE , chronicles relate that the first Sinhalese speakers , thought to have originated in North India , arrived in around the sixth ...
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... India . Indian traders frequented the coastal towns and there was also interaction between the courts of India and Southeast Asia . From about the beginning of the Christian era the Buddhist and Hindu religions and cosmologies were ...
... India . Indian traders frequented the coastal towns and there was also interaction between the courts of India and Southeast Asia . From about the beginning of the Christian era the Buddhist and Hindu religions and cosmologies were ...
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Aboriginal Aesir Amaterasu ancestors ancient animals Arnhem Land Australia Baal became believed bird birth body brother Buddha Buddhist called carved Celtic Celts century BCE civilisation creation myths creatures Cúchulainn cult culture cycle Daksha dance daughter dead death deities demons depicted descended divine earth Enki Enlil Ereshkigal evil father female fertility figure fire fish flood Freyja giant Gilgamesh goddess gods Greek head heaven hero Huitzilopochtli human hunting important Indian Inuit island Izanagi journey killed king Krishna lived Loki Lugh magic married Mesoamerica Mesoamerican Mexica moon mother mountain mythic mythology nature night Ninurta ocean Odin Okuninushi origin painting religion religious ritual river Roman sacred sacrifice serpent shaman Shiva Slav soul spirits stone stories Sumerian supernatural Susa-no-o symbol Taíno temple themes Thor tion told tree tribes trickster Tuatha Dé Danann Ugarit underworld Vishnu warrior wife woman women worshipped Zeus