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Grant L. Voth · 2010
Survey of world mythology — heroes, tricksters, monsters, transformations. Mythology cluster.
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What this book knows
Myths are humanity's oldest technology for answering why consciousness exists, what death means, and how the cosmos holds together.
mortality
How does individual human life, how does my consciousness, emerge from the mysterious mystery preceding it? And how does it again dissolve back via death into that unknown?
MHH-RC-012Hindu myths posit a cycle of death and rebirth; after cosmic destruction, the cosmos returns to a golden age.
MHH-RC-030faith-and-doubt
Dictionary definitions of myth stress its fantastic elements, assuring us that even if a myth purports to be true, it is not.
MHH-RC-007What emerged mythically was the idea of a supreme male deity, prompting humans to expend enormous energy to minimize the distance between themselves and God.
MHH-RC-047Jacob calls the place Bethel, 'the house of God'; it designates where the transcendent and immanent intersect.
MHH-RC-081self-and-identity
The hero is always entering his own spiritual labyrinth, and the figures he meets are symbolic figures of his own consciousness.
MHH-RC-061Illuminates
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