When They Severed Earth from Sky - How the Human Mind Shapes Myth - Paperback - 2006

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.
Year of publication: 2006
Pagination: 312 pages, 18 line illus. 27 halftones.
Format: Paperback