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China had no Hesiod , Homer , or Ovid to retell the mythic oral tales . Instead , Chinese writers introduced fragmentary passages of mythic narrative into ...
China had no Hesiod , Homer , or Ovid to retell the mythic oral tales . Instead , Chinese writers introduced fragmentary passages of mythic narrative into ...
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World catastrophe by fire has only one mythic version , whose central concern is with the solar calendar , but there are several drought myths .
World catastrophe by fire has only one mythic version , whose central concern is with the solar calendar , but there are several drought myths .
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... sand , sacred artefacts such as shields and bull - roarers , and more recently with acrylic paints on canvas - which depict certain mythic episodes .
... sand , sacred artefacts such as shields and bull - roarers , and more recently with acrylic paints on canvas - which depict certain mythic episodes .
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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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