18 books like The masks of God

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Magic and religion Andrew Lang · 1901 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Challenging 'The sin of witchcraft is as the sin of rebellion.' The idea which inspires this text probably is that a person who seeks to obtain his ends by witchcraft is rebelling against the deity or deities through whom alone these ends should be sought. Witchcraft is also an insult and injury to the official priests, who regard the witch as the surgeon regards the bone-setter, or as the geologist regards… Shares: Primitive Religion, Religion, Mythology

Custom and myth Andrew Lang · 1884 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his… Shares: Primitive Religion, Religion, Mythology

The Golden Bough James George Frazer · 1890 · ★ 4.0 · 269p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Wikipedia - "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (retitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion in its second edition) is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was first published in two volumes in 1890; in three volumes in 1900; and in twelve volumes in the third… Shares: Primitive Religion, Mythologie, Religion, Mythology

Classical Mythology Mark P. O. Morford · 1971 · 524p · ≈ 17h · Moderate An excellent primer on classical mythology for readers who have little or no background of classical knowledge. Shares: Mythologie, Classical Mythology, Mythology

Who's who in classical mythology Michael Grant · 1973 · 367p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Who's Who in Classical Mythology is the most complete and detailed reference book of its kind. It offers scholarly, yet accessible accounts of those mythological tales surrounding such gods as Apollo, Zeus, Athena and Dionysus, and mortals such as Achilles, Odysseus, Jason, Aeneas, Romulus and Remus and Tarquin.It contains over 1200 extensive entries, covering both Greek and Roman characters,… Shares: Mythologie, Classical Mythology, Religion, Mythology

Introduction to mythology Lewis Spence · 1921 · 334p · ≈ 11h · Challenging What mythology is and how it has been explained - the solar theory, the ghost theory, the ritual theory - set out by a working folklorist for readers who wanted the arguments before the stories. Shares: Mythologie, Mythology

Aspects du mythe Mircea Eliade · 1963 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Moderate First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals of a wide… Shares: Symbolism, Mythology

The lost language of symbolism Harold Bayley · 1912 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Challenging An Inquiry into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Mythologies. Bayley spent years gathering knowledge of symbols and emblems from many different areas. He has a scholarly command over mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world that shows clearly how and why important symbols were used. Stories are often cross-referenced,… Shares: Symbolism, Mythologie, Mythology

The legend of good women Geoffrey Chaucer · 1889 · ★ 3.0 · 229p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout The Canterbury Tales. This form of the heroic couplet would become a… Shares: Mythologie, Classical Mythology, Mythology

A story of the golden age James Baldwin · 1887 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Challenging You have heard of Homer, and of the two wonderful poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which bear his name. No one knows whether these poems were composed by Homer, or whether they are the work of many different poets. And, in fact, it matters very little about their authorship. Everybody agrees that they are the grandest poems ever sung or written or read in this world; and yet, how few persons,… Shares: Classical Mythology, Mythology

Mutterrecht und Urreligion Johann Jakob Bachofen · 1900 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares: Symbolism, Classical Mythology, Religion, Mythology

Culture and religion in some of their relations John Campbell Shairp · 1871 · 197p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Shares: Culture, Religion

Dictionnaire des symboles Chevalier, Jean · 1969 · ★ 4.5 · 1060p · ≈ 35h · Challenging This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds - including anthropology, ethnology, psychotherapy and art history. This diversity of approach is responsible for the book's unique character, a reflection of the multiplicity of symbols and signs and the… Shares: Symbolism, Mythologie, Mythology

A Short History of Myth Karen Armstrong · 2005 · ★ 3.7 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The history of myth is the history of humanity; our stories and beliefs, our curiosity and attempts to understand the world, link us to our ancestors and each other. Myths help us make sense of the universe. Armstrong takes us from the Palaeolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to the 'Great Western Transformation' of the last 500 years and the discrediting of myth by science.… Shares: Mythologie, Mythology

The age of fable Thomas Bulfinch · 1871 · 531p · ≈ 17h · Challenging The Age of Fable is a Mythological type of book. It contains many Greek and Roman myths, including simplified versions of The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as a selection of Norse and “eastern” myths. Thomas Bulfinch’s goal was to make the ancient myths accessible to a wide audience, and so it is suitable for children. Shares: Mythologie, Classical Mythology, Mythology

Deutsche Mythologie Kauffmann, Friedrich · 1890 · 119p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Deutsche Mythologie (, Teutonic Mythology) is a treatise on Germanic mythology by Jacob Grimm. First published in Germany in 1835, the work is an exhaustive treatment of the subject, tracing the mythology and beliefs of the ancient Germanic peoples from their earliest attestations to their survivals in modern traditions, folktales and popular expressions. Shares: Mythologie, Mythology

Mythology Edith Hamilton · 1940 · ★ 4.0 · 497p · ≈ 16h · Challenging There has long been a need for the stories of ancient mythology written to appeal to the twentieth-century mind. Edith Hamilton's orderly and lucid presentation of Greek, Roman and Norse mythology promises the casual reader and the avid student a sound, modern and adult key to the foundation stones of world literature. Her years of study of classical literature have already produced notable books… Shares: Mythologie, Classical Mythology, Mythology

Le sacré et le profane Mircea Eliade · 1959 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man… Shares: Mythologie, Religion, Mythology

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