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Multiple lecturers (The Great Courses) · 2015
Four-part survey — Greek/Roman, Northern European, Asian, African and Mesoamerican. Mythology cluster.
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What this book knows
Every culture's myths encode the same human anxieties about death, cosmos, and what it means to be mortal and social.
mortality
Osiris became associated with death and resurrection of nature overall, governing annual cycles in which vegetation appeared to die and be reborn.
GC-GMY-RC-059Odin describes his own hanging as a self-sacrifice: 'I hung from that windswept tree' — death chosen to win hidden knowledge.
GC-GMY-RC-042Many people have found this so-called answer to the problem of innocent suffering unsatisfactory — and many scholars think so too.
GC-GMY-RC-067transformation
After twenty-one days, the bear became a woman, but the tiger, unable to observe the taboo, remained a tiger.
GC-GMY-RC-142When the girl pulled her hand out it was festooned with beautiful bracelets; soon she was bejeweled from head to foot.
GC-GMY-RC-127self-and-identity
Olympiodorus argued that humanity arose from the ashes of the burning Titan corpse — Greeks drew direct connections between the Titans and humanity.
GC-GMY-RC-007Illuminates
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