Books - "mythology"
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The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1959-1987
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PUBLISHER: HarperSanFrancisco 1997
KEYWORDS: joseph cambell mythology human culture anthropology modernity modern psychology occult literature
Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood
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PUBLISHER: Beacon Press 1984
KEYWORDS: goddess goddesses world religion religions mythology myth women divine feminine femininity heroine heroines lore
Maori Legends (The Creation Stories)
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PUBLISHER: Shortland Educational Publications 1984
KEYWORDS: maori legends creation illustrated children children's youth literature mythology aotearoa new zealand
Maori Legends (Seven Stories)
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PUBLISHER: Shortland Publications Ltd. 1991
KEYWORDS: maori legends children's children youth illustrated new zealand aotearoa mythology myth myths
Pillars of Wisdom: The Writings of Albert Pike
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, gilt lettering to spine, gilt masonic motif to rear cover, xvii + 368pp, illus, VG (moderate chafing & scuffing to spine & cover edges, light creasing & chafing to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: The Supreme Council, 33o Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Southern Jurisdiction 1995
KEYWORDS: freemasonry freemasons Albert Pike writings collection anthology philosophy ancient mythology theology
Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
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PUBLISHER: New World Library 2001
KEYWORDS: joseph campbell mythology religion religious studies comparative religions metaphor speech language
Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: The Wisdom of Children's Literature
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PUBLISHER: Random House1983
KEYWORDS: children's literature essay cultural studies mythology folklore
The Secular Scripture: A Study of Romance
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PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: northrop frye literature literary criticism theory romance structure mythology imagination archetypes archetypal
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype
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PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: mythology psychology human psyche Erich Neumann culture philosophy
The Cat in Ancient Egypt
SCARCE, quarto, deep blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, silver gilt cat illus to front board, frontispiece, xi + 92pp, 19x black & white plates- all present, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl wrinkling to cloth on boards, light tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light staining to edges & spine, moderate tanning to spine & edges with some light creasing & chipping)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1940
KEYWORDS: ancient Egypt antiquity cats felines mythology spirituality history deities worship Langton Collection antiques antiquities cat figures
Kula: Myth and Magic in the Trobriand Islands
Quarto, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, frontispiece, 222pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light foxing & soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps, occasional light cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cowrie Books 1998
KEYWORDS: travel literature exploration Trobriand Islands mythology myths legends social life customs png Papua New Guinea
Oceanic Mythology: The Myths of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia
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PUBLISHER: The Hamlyn Publishing Group 1975
KEYWORDS: oceania mythology culture ancient history anthropology antiquity Polynesia Micronesia Melanesia Australia myths legends
Birds of Aotearoa: A Natural and Cultural History
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO FRANCIS POUND & SUE CROCKFORD, square imperial octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, 198pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Reed Books 2003
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Aotearoa birds ornithology ethnozoology nature animals culture Maori mythology
Polynesian Mythology; and Ancient Traditional History of the Maori as Told by Their Priests and Chiefs
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PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1974
KEYWORDS: Polynesia Polynesian mythology ancient history anthropology folklore lore legends Maori
Elysion: On Ancient Greek and Roman Beliefs Concerning a Life After Death
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PUBLISHER: Rider & Company 1970
KEYWORDS: ancient Greece Greek Rome Roman mythology beliefs spirituality life after death afterlife lore folklore
Oedipus and Akhnaton: Myth and History
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PUBLISHER: Sidgwick and Jackson 1960
KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity mythology Immanuel Velikovsky
Legends and Mysteries of the Maori
FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram illus boards, orange lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 240pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, minor chafing to boards & edges, light tanning & foxing to page egdes & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl foxing to prelims, occasional light cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate to heavy tanning & staining to spine & cover edges)
PUBLISHER: George G. Harrap & Co 1932
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori myths mythology legends ancient history culture first editions
The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, grey heavy boards, green lettering & decoration to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, ix + 47pp, plates with tissue guards, VG- (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems with some surface loss, moderate tanning & foxing to boards & page edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps, sm gift inscription in ink to front pastedown, light foxing to tissue guards)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1914
KEYWORDS: first editions Apuleius metamorphoses illustrated Dorothy Mullock classical literature mythology classic
The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm (Sixth Edition)
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PUBLISHER: George Allen 1895
KEYWORDS: Greek myths mythology John Ruskin Athena
The Forest in Folklore and Mythology
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PUBLISHER: Dover Publications 2002
KEYWORDS: folklore lore mythology myths forests trees forestry cultures literature