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(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
ISBN: 9780691127743
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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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.
