The Flight of the Wild Gander

The Flight of the Wild Gander
Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781577312109

The author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces explores the origins of myth from the Grimm fairy tales to Native American legends, explaining in a collection of essays how the symbolic content of myth is linked to universal human experience and how myths and experiences change over time.

Sacred Narrative

Sacred Narrative
Author: Alan Dundes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1984-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780520051928

Alan Dundes defines myth as a sacred narrative that explains how the world and humanity came to be in their present form. This new volume brings together classic statements on the theory of myth by the authors. The twenty-two essays by leading experts on myth represent comparative, functionalist, myth-ritual, Jungian, Freudian, and structuralist approaches to studying the genre.

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth
Author: Daniel Merkur
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2005-07-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1135575274

This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights.

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 13

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 13
Author: L. Bryce Boyer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317737148

Volume 13 includes chapters on the contributions of Weston LaBarre (B. Kilbourne); Geza Roheim's theory of myth (S. Morales); the origins of Christianity (W. Meissner); myths in Inuit religion (D. Merkur); the psychology of a Sherpa shaman (R. Paul); the psychoanalytic study of urban legends (M. Carroll); and the dogma of technology (H. Stein & R. Hill).

Creation and Procreation

Creation and Procreation
Author: Marta Weigle
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1512809004

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods

Gobekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods
Author: Andrew Collins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1591438357

An exploration of the megalithic complex at Göbekli Tepe, who built it, and how it gave rise to legends regarding the foundations of civilization • Details the layout, architecture, and exquisite carvings at Göbekli Tepe • Explores how it was built as a reaction to a global cataclysm • Explains that it was the Watchers of the Book of Enoch and the Anunnaki gods of Sumerian tradition who created it • Reveals the location of the remains of the Garden of Eden in the same region Built at the end of the last ice age, the mysterious stone temple complex of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is one of the greatest challenges to 21st century archaeology. As much as 7,000 years older than the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge, its strange buildings and rings of T-shaped monoliths--built with stones weighing from 10 to 15 tons--show a level of sophistication and artistic achievement unmatched until the rise of the great civilizations of the ancient world, Sumer, Egypt, and Babylon. Chronicling his travels to Göbekli Tepe and surrounding sites, Andrew Collins details the layout, architecture, and exquisite relief carvings of ice age animals and human forms found at this 12,000-year-old megalithic complex, now recognized as the oldest stone architecture in the world. He explores how it was built as a reaction to a global cataclysm--the Great Flood in the Bible--and explains how it served as a gateway and map to the sky-world, the place of first creation, reached via a bright star in the constellation of Cygnus. He reveals those behind its construction as the Watchers of the Book of Enoch and the Anunnaki gods of Sumerian tradition. Unveiling Göbekli Tepe’s foundational role in the rise of civilization, Collins shows how it is connected to humanity’s creation in the Garden of Eden and the secrets Adam passed to his son Seth, the founder of an angelic race called the Sethites. In his search for Adam’s legendary Cave of Treasures, the author discovers the Garden of Eden and the remains of the Tree of Life--in the same sacred region where Göbekli Tepe is being uncovered today.

Reachable Stars

Reachable Stars
Author: George E. Lankford
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2007-08-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 081735428X

Lankford's volume focuses on the ancient North Americans and the ways they identified, patterned, ordered, and used the stars to light their culture and illuminate their traditions.

Folktales and Society

Folktales and Society
Author: Linda Dégh
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1989
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780253316790

A study of the Szeklers and their folktales.