The Mythic Image

The Mythic Image

This book presents approximately 450 illustrations of mythic art from Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, European, and Olmec cultures as a basis for an exploration into the relation of dreams to myth.

Joseph Campbell

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press

M.J. Abadie

THE WORLD AS DREAM. The lord of sleep ; The lord of death and resurrection ; The wonder child ; The mighty goddess -- THE IDEA OF A COSMIC ORDER. Literate and non-literate traditions ; The world mountain ; The world mountain in Middle America ; The calendric round ; The revolving sphere of space-time ; The center of transformation -- THE LOTUS AND THE ROSE. The flower scepter ; The flower support ; The waters beneath and above ; The golden seed -- TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE INNER LIGHT. Psychology and yoga ; The serpent guide ; The one thus come ; The wisdom of the yonder shore ; The lotus ladder ; The return to Earth -- THE SACRIFICE. The willing victim ; The magical, moral, and mystical orders of sacrifice ; The alter of blood ; The myth -- THE WAKING.

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