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THE COMPLEXITY OF THE COLLECTION OF CHINESE MYTHS THE MYTHS
OF ANCIENT China emerge from the oral tradition to be preserved in classical
texts in the Age of the Philosophers and with the advent of earlyʻliterature .
China ...
THE COMPLEXITY OF THE COLLECTION OF CHINESE MYTHS THE MYTHS
OF ANCIENT China emerge from the oral tradition to be preserved in classical
texts in the Age of the Philosophers and with the advent of earlyʻliterature .
China ...
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WORLD PARALLELS AND INDIGENOUS TRAITS THE MAIN THEMES of
Chinese myth reveal significant parallels with world mythologies . Chinese
creation myth differs by the absence of a creator or the concept of divine will , and
by the ...
WORLD PARALLELS AND INDIGENOUS TRAITS THE MAIN THEMES of
Chinese myth reveal significant parallels with world mythologies . Chinese
creation myth differs by the absence of a creator or the concept of divine will , and
by the ...
Page 198
Thus , the Korean people have a distinctive racial and cultural origin from A Ch'
amsong - dan altar , said to have been the Chinese people , erected by Tan'gun ,
mythical founder of the although they have also Korean nation . absorbed ...
Thus , the Korean people have a distinctive racial and cultural origin from A Ch'
amsong - dan altar , said to have been the Chinese people , erected by Tan'gun ,
mythical founder of the although they have also Korean nation . absorbed ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | World Mythology |
| Editor | Arthur Cotterell |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Parragon Incorporated, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1405447672, 9781405447676 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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