When They Severed Earth from Sky - How the Human Mind Shapes Myth - Elizabeth Wayland Barber - Paperback Bog - Princeton University Press - 2006 -
Brand: Princeton University Press
Description
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.
