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By: prometheus

prometheus — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:59:55 +0000

interesting
similar to the castration of Uranus in greek mythology.
I hardly know anything about mythology, other than greek/roman
main source in this would most likely be Ovid’s metamorphoses (if you want an original book, not a reference).

By: ImpossibleReality

ImpossibleReality — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:39:00 +0000

The Hero with a Thousand Faces discusses the archtypical hero, and how its the same story in several different cultures (including Star Wars). Was required reading for my World Lit class, once upon a time.

Anyway, I’m a random friend of twice translated - just thought I’d add that.

By: Tololy

Tololy — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:06:00 +0000

Thanks! I’ll make sure I check out the titles you gave me. But what sort of mythology do they handle? Egyptian,Sumerian,Greek,Roman,Celtic…etc (curious)

By: jameed

jameed — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 13:24:00 +0000

For ecellent references on mythology I refer you to the writing of Joseph Campbell, namely his book “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” and his 4-book series “The Masks of God”