Long ago the ancestors of the Greeks, Romans, and Hindus were one people living on the Eurasian steppes. At the core of their religion was the "shamanic trance,

This book uses a nine-year experience of teaching world mythology to art students in order to discuss why and how such ancient stories provide significance toda

--Selected by the National University of Singapore Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences as one of 85 Landmark Books-- A curious young boy opens a door and is thrus

When this book first appeared (1886), the philological school of interpretation of religion and myth, being then still powerful in England, was criticised and o