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When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth Elizabeth Wayland Barber
When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? This book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies.
312 pages, 18 line illus. 27 halftones.
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Paperback Book (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado) |
| Publicado | 25 de septiembre de 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691127743 |
| Editores | Princeton University Press |
| Páginas | 312 |
| Dimensiones | 156 × 234 × 18 mm · 466 g |
| Lengua | Inglés |