A guide to the gods - Softcover

Carlyon, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0688013333 ISBN 13: 9780688013332

Publisher: Quill, 1982

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With over a thousand entries describing the stories of gods and goddesses of every continent on earth, A Guide to the Gods is a perfect reference for students of mythology as well as a fascinating collection of well-told tales. Here are the familiar figures of classical Greek and Roman mythology (whose stories are brilliantly retold) as well as the gods and goddesses of China and Japan, of Africa, of the North American Indians, of pagan Europe and the Middle East, of the Caribbean and the island cultures of the Pacific. Thus Carlyon offers us not only the familiar Mars and Jupiter and Diana but also Backlum Chaam, the Mayan god of male sexuality; Hina, the Polynesian goddess of darkness and death; Vishnu, the Hindu god of love. "Gods and goddesses have appeared in every conceivable guise," writes Carlyon, "possessing every possible character, mirroring every human attitude, opinion, virtue and vice. Their stories are the common heritage of us all." A Guide to the Gods is at once a nourishing source of information and a delightful book of tales, a compelling Who's Who of world mythology. This is an essential reference guide to world mythology and the magnificent variety of human religious experience.

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