World Mythology: A Very Short Introduction Wien Julian Yates

Julian Yates

a pharmacologist

We travel from the origins of Homo sapiens through the agrarian and industrial revolutions

Er begann 1995 Mineralien aus seiner eigenen Sammlung zu zeichnen

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World Mythology: A Very Short Introduction Wien Julian YatesThe mythologies of the world are collective cultural dreams, and as such should be analyzed first from cultural perspectives. How do myths of the ancient Egyptians or Greeks, for instance, reflect the realities of the Egyptian and Greek cultures? When compared, however, mythologies reveal certain universal themes or motifs that point to larger trans cultural issues such as the place of the human species in creation or the nature of deity as a concept.