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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 their works to illustrate their argument and to give authority to their ...
China had no Hesiod , Homer , or Ovid to retell the mythic oral tales . Instead , Chinese writers introduced fragmentary passages of mythic narrative into their works to illustrate their argument and to give authority to their ...
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内聚均主 THE VARIETY OF TEXTS THAT PRESERVED THE MYTHS THE EARLIEST CLASSICAL text which preserved mythic ... The later texts of Confucian philosophy refer only briefly to mythical figures , but the Confucian text , Mencius ( 350 BCE ) ...
内聚均主 THE VARIETY OF TEXTS THAT PRESERVED THE MYTHS THE EARLIEST CLASSICAL text which preserved mythic ... The later texts of Confucian philosophy refer only briefly to mythical figures , but the Confucian text , Mencius ( 350 BCE ) ...
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Created in mythic time , the Amerindian universe can be replicated in the design of a house , and the shape of the human body . It is ruled by powerful spirits whose capricious actions are tempered only by the shaman confronting them in ...
Created in mythic time , the Amerindian universe can be replicated in the design of a house , and the shape of the human body . It is ruled by powerful spirits whose capricious actions are tempered only by the shaman confronting them in ...
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