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200 14$aThe world of myth$b[electronic resource] /$fDavid Adams Leeming
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1990
215   $a1 online resource (379 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-507475-0 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $apt. I. Cosmic myths -- pt. II. Myths of the gods -- pt. III. Hero myths -- pt. IV. Place and object myths.
330   $aHercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh--these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing common concerns that each society voices in its own idiom. Whether an Egyptian story of creation or the big-bang theory of modern physics, myth is metaphor, mirroring our deepest sense of ourselves in relation to existence itself. Now, in The World of Myth, Leeming provides a sweeping anthology 
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606   $aMythology
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