"The fact that religions show internal variation and develop over time is not only a problem for believers, but has also long engaged scholars. This is especially true for the religions of the ancient world, where the mere idea of innovation in religious matters evoked notions o…
"An exploration of New Zealand's Maori cosmology and how it relates to classic ancient symbolic traditions around the world Shows how Maori myths, symbols, cosmological concepts, and words reflect symbolic elements found at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey Demonstrates parallels between t…
"An exploration of New Zealand's Maori cosmology and how it relates to classic ancient symbolic traditions around the world Shows how Maori myths, symbols, cosmological concepts, and words reflect symbolic elements found at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey Demonstrates parallels between t…
"An exploration of New Zealand's Maori cosmology and how it relates to classic ancient symbolic traditions around the world Shows how Maori myths, symbols, cosmological concepts, and words reflect symbolic elements found at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey Demonstrates parallels between t…
"An exploration of New Zealand's Maori cosmology and how it relates to classic ancient symbolic traditions around the world Shows how Maori myths, symbols, cosmological concepts, and words reflect symbolic elements found at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey Demonstrates parallels between t…
This volume offers eight approaches to myth, its uses and purposes, from viewing personal narrative as a form of healing myth to observing the atrocities committed daily arising from the most destructive form of myth. The authors of the eight chapters here note that myths have e…
A systematic comparison of the themes that underlie the art, worship, and literature of the Western world.
Reconstructs a theoretic parent cosmology that underlies ancient religion Shows how this parent cosmology provided the conceptual origins of written language Uses techniques of comparative cosmology to synchronize the creation traditions of the Dogon, ancient Egyptians, and anci…
Callahan strictly interprets the Bible through the lens of comparative mythology, where the mythic content of Biblical stories is illustrated as a way to understand the purpose the stories served for the people who wrote them. Biblical history is merely a mythic representation o…
