Mythology: The Illustrated Mythology of World Myth & Storytelling
| Project Editor/Coordinator/Director | Christopher Westhorp, Diana Loxley |
| Editor | Duncan Baird Publishers |
| Design Manager | Gail Jones, Gabriella Le Grazie, Clare Thorpe |
| Publisher | Duncan Baird Publishers |
| Copyright Holder (Text) | Duncan Baird Publishers |
| General Editor | G. Scott Littleton |
| Printed and Bound by | Imago |
| Consultant | Dr Joann Fletcher, Dr Jeremy Black, Dr Michael Trapp, Piers Vitebsky, Dr John McInnes, Dr Hilda Ellis Davidson, Dr Stuart Blackburn, Dr John Chinnery, G. Scott Littleton, Hugh Brodie, Dr Tim Laughton, Dr Andrew Canessa, Dr Stephen Belcher, Dr Chris Gosden |
| Color Reproduction | Colourscan |
| Designed by | Duncan Baird Publishers |
| Researcher | Cecilia Weston-Baker, Anne-Marie Ehrlich, Julia Ruxton, Susannah Stone |
| Copyright Holder | Duncan Baird Publishers |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London |
| Copyright | 2002 |
| Pages / Font | 688 pages |
| Printer's Key | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 |
| ISBN 10 | 1-904292-01-1 |
| Barcode | 9781904292012 |
| Chapters | THE MEANING OF MYTH 1 CRADLES OF CIVILIZATION Egypt's Divine Kingship -- Order out of Chaos -- The Sun God -- The Servant of the Sun -- Picture Essay 1: A Divine Menagerie -- The Celestial Domain -- The Divine Protectress -- The Conflicts of Horus and Seth -- The Kings in Myth -- Preparing for Eternity -- Journey into Darkness -- Picture Essay 2: The Tomb of Tutankhamun Ancient Mesopotamia -- Divine Creators -- Enki and the Island of Dilmun -- The Suffering of Humanity -- How the Moon was Saved -- Lady of Heaven -- The Vengeance of Inana -- A Descent into the Underworld -- The Marriage of Nergal and Ereshkigal -- The Warrior King -- The Creation of Humankind -- Picture Essay 3: Kings and Princes -- The Quest of a Superhero -- Heroes in Partnership -- Hunting the Forest Monster -- Enkidu Pays the Price -- The Journey towards Immortality -- Gilgamesh and the Flood The Glories of Greece and Rome -- Chaos and its Offspring -- Children of Earth and the Heavens -- The Castration of Uranus -- The Birth of Zeus -- The Battles of the Gods -- The Ages of Humankind -- Olympus: Dwelling of the Gods -- The First Couple, Zeus and Hera -- Hades, God of the Underworld -- Demeter's Tale of Death and Rebirth -- Aphrodite, Goddess of Love -- Picture Essay 4: The City on the Hill -- Athene, Goddess of Good Counsel -- Artemis, Virgin Huntress -- Apollo, God of Light -- Hermes, Fleet of Foot -- The Realm of the Shades -- The Labours of Herakles -- A Trojan Tragedy: Gathering the Host -- The Wrath of Achilles -- The Fall of Troy -- The Heroes Come Home -- Odysseus, the Wandering Hero -- Aeneas, Founder of the Roman Race -- Romulus—First Builder of Rome -- Picture Essay 5: Imperial Supermen 2 THE CELTIC, VIKING AND GERMANIC WORLDS Celtic Deities and Heroes -- A Sacred World -- The Mother Goddess -- Lords of the Heavens -- The Otherworld -- The Natural World -- Ritual and Sacrifice -- The Ulster Wars Sagas of the Norsemen -- The Creation of the Universe -- The Three Levels of Existence -- The Aesir -- Odin, God of War and Magic -- Picture Essay 6: The Art of Warfare -- Thor, God of Thunder -- Loki, Companion to the Gods -- The Shadowy Pantheon -- The War between the Aesir and Vanir -- The Death of Balder -- The End of the World 3 THE EASTERN WORLD India's Eternal Cycle -- Creation and Sacrifice -- The First of the Gods -- The Bringer of Plenty -- God of Destruction, Lord of Life -- The Destruction of the Triple City -- Holy Waters, Blessed Earth -- The Great Preserver -- Prince Rama and the Demon King -- The Spirit and the Sword -- Exile and Treachery -- Eighteen Days at Kurukshetra -- Picture Essay 7: The Living Goddess -- Forces of Fertility and War -- The Daughter of the Mountains -- Parvati's Golden Skin -- Goddess of Good Fortune -- The Birth of the Buddha China's Heavenly Mandate -- From the Vapours of Chaos -- The Square Earth -- Mother of the World -- The Great Flood -- Master of the Harvest -- The Yellow Emperor -- A Battle of the Elements -- Lady Silkworm -- The Time of the Ten Suns -- The Elixir of Life -- Yao Finds an Heir -- Yu Mounts the Dragon Throne -- The Fall of Dynasties -- Picture Essay 8: A City of Symbols -- A Bureaucracy of Gods -- Tales of the Eight Immortals -- Lords of the Waters -- The Monkey King Japan's Realm of the Rising Sun -- The Shape of the Cosmos -- Begetting the World -- Journey to the Underworld -- Amaterasu and Susano -- The Return of the Sun -- Susano in Exile -- The Battle for the Reed Plain -- Jimmu, the First Emperor -- Named in a Brigand's Dying Breath -- Yamato-takeru's Twilight -- Lord of the Rice Bale -- Picture Essay 9: The Way of the Warrior 4 THE NEW WORLD North America's Mother Earth, Father Sky -- Earthdivers and Creators -- Of Seaons, Seals and Cereals -- The Circle of Heaven -- The Details of the Universe -- The Peopling of the Earth -- "The Earth is my Mother" -- A World of Powerful Forces -- Tricksters: The Unpredictable Spirits -- Respecting the Animals Mesoamerica's Gods of Sun and Sacrifice -- The Maya Universe -- The Earth is Born -- The First Genocide -- The Arrogant Impostor -- Zipacna and Earthquake -- The Birth of the Hero Twins -- The Defeat of the Underworld Gods -- The First Human Beings -- The Quiché People -- Picture Essay 10: Teotihuacan -- The Aztec Universe -- The Five Suns -- The Earth Mother -- Pulque, the Divine Intoxicant -- Lord of the Smoking Mirror -- The Plumed Serpent -- Quetzalcoatl as the Morning Star -- The Creation of the Sun and Moon -- Gods of the Natural World -- Cycles of Destiny -- A Universe Fuelled by Blood -- Impersonating the Gods -- The Power of the Shaman South American Kingdoms of Gold -- Valleys of the Chibcha -- Creation and Deluge -- In the Shadow of the Gods -- Shamans and Sacred Stones -- Instructor of the World -- The Giants from the West -- Fateful Tales of the Golden City -- Spirits of the Mountains -- Picture Essay 11: Treasures for the Afterlife 5 THE SOUTHERN WORLD The Ancestral Voices of Africa -- Oldest Tales of the San -- Making the Earth -- Ancient Serpent Beings -- The Kings Who Came from the Sky -- Learning Lessons from the Animals -- Living in Terror of Witches The Unseen Worlds of Australasia -- Dreaming the Earth -- The Serpent and the Rainbow -- Spirit of the Ancestral Sisters -- The Making of Humankind -- The Unity of People and Nature -- Wonders of the Heavens -- Picture Essay 12: The Battle of Uluru -- Rangi and Papa, Creators Supreme -- The Quarrelsome Elements -- First Man Tiki -- A Dynasty of Nobles -- Maui the Trickster Hero Further Reading Index Picture Credits |
| Notes | Printed and bound in Singapore |
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