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Yup'ik and Inupiaq Eskimo myths relate how all animate beings have a dual
existence, so that an animal can become a human at will, or vice versa. The myth
of Raven Man tells how, set adrift on an ice floe, Raven comes across a village of
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Yup'ik and Inupiaq Eskimo myths relate how all animate beings have a dual
existence, so that an animal can become a human at will, or vice versa. The myth
of Raven Man tells how, set adrift on an ice floe, Raven comes across a village of
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She then took Tuna of the eternal waters as her lover. When she tired of him all
her potential lovers were afraid of Tuna until Maui fought and killed him in an epic
battle. Maui cut off the head which Hina planted, to become the coconut palm.
She then took Tuna of the eternal waters as her lover. When she tired of him all
her potential lovers were afraid of Tuna until Maui fought and killed him in an epic
battle. Maui cut off the head which Hina planted, to become the coconut palm.
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third age was the contemporary age, a realm in which humans and gods have
become remote from each other, in which humans, through their rituals and
traditions, seek to duplicate that long lost perfect age.
third age was the contemporary age, a realm in which humans and gods have
become remote from each other, in which humans, through their rituals and
traditions, seek to duplicate that long lost perfect age.
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Contents
Introduction | 5 |
India and Australia 229 | 141 |
Greece and Rome 51 Tibet and Africa | 161 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | World Mythology A Dempsey Parr micropedia |
| Contributor | Arthur Cotterell |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dempsey Parr, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1840844515, 9781840844511 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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