Leeming - The World of Myth

THE WORLD OF MYTH

David Adams Leeming

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Leeming, David Adams, 1937
The world of myth / David Adams Leeming.
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13 978-0-19-505601-3 978-0-19-507475-8
1. Myth 2. Mythology. I. Title.
BL311.L328 1990 291.13dc20 89-48070

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Text Credits:

New American Library for excerpts from Thomas Bulfinch, Mythology: The Age of Chivalry and Mythology: The Age of Fable.

Grafton Books for excerpts from Rex Warner, The Stories of the Greeks.

Search Press, Ltd., for excerpts from Butlers Lives of the Saints.

Charles Boer, translator, for excerpts from The Homeric Hymns, published by Swallow Press and in revised edition by Spring Books.

Excerpts from Cornelia Dimmitt and J. A. B. Van Buitenen, eds., Classical Hindu Mythology. 1978 by Temple University. Reprinted by permission of Temple University Press.

The University of California Press and Bowes and Bowes, Ltd., for excerpts from The Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson, ed. by Jean Young. 1954 Bodley Head, Ltd., and 1964 The Regents of the University of California.

Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., for excerpts from The Wonder that was India, translated by A. L. Basham.

Parabola and Paul Jordan-Smith for excerpts from the Popol Vuh.

Oxford University Press, Ltd., for excerpts from Julius Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, and James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth.

Oxford University Press, Ltd., and Everymans Library for excerpts from the Bhagavad-Gita, translated by R. C. Zaehner.

Houghton Mifflin Company for excerpts from Longfellows Song of Hiawatha.

The University of Chicago Press for excerpts from Sophocles, Oedipus the King, translated by David Grene, 1942, by The University of Chicago; Sophocles, Antigone, translated by Elizabeth Wycoff, 1954 by The University of Chicago. Both in Sophocles I: The Complete Greek Tragedies, ed. David Grene and Richard Lattimore, 1954, by The University of Chicago.

Dennis Hirota, translator, and Ryukoku University Translation Center for excerpts from Shinran, Tannisho: A Primer.

American Philosophical Society for excerpts from S. N. Kramer, Sumerian Mythology.

By permission from G. M. Mullett, Spider Woman Stories, The University of Arizona Press, Copyright 1979.

J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., for excerpts from The Koran.

Dover Publications, Inc., for excerpts from A. K. Coomaraswamy and Sister Nivedita, Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists.

Harrap, Ltd., for excerpts from Ramsay Smith, Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines, and Ananda Coomaraswamy, Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism.

University of Nebraska Press for excerpts from George Bird Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales.

Excerpts from Jerome Rothenberg, The Flight of Quetzalcoatl in Shaking the Pumpkin. Copyright 1972 by Jerome Rothenberg. Reprinted by permission of Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.

Cooper Square Publishers for excerpts from Louis Grey, ed., The Mythology of All Races.

W. B. Yeats, Leda and the Swan. Reprinted with permission of Macmillan Publishing Company from The Poems of W. B. Yeats: A New Edition, edited by Richard J. Finneran. Copyright 1928 by Macmillan Publishing Company; renewed 1956 by Georgie Yeats.

Excerpts from Hesiods Theogony. Reprinted with permission of Macmillan Publishing Company from Hesiods Theogony, translated and edited by Norman O. Brown. Copyright 1953 by Macmillan Publishing Company. Copyright renewed 1981 by Norman O. Brown.

Excerpts from R. T. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt. 1959 Thames and Hudson Ltd., London.

Excerpts from Edith Hamilton, Mythology. Copyright 1942 by Edith Hamilton, renewed 1969 by Dorian Fielding Reid and Doris Fielding Reid. By permission of Little, Brown and Company.

Methuen and Co. for excerpts from H. J. Rose, A Handbook of Greek Mythology.

Excerpts from Mythologies of the Ancient World by Samuel N. Kramer, copyright 1961 by Doubleday, a division of Bantam, Doubleday, Dell Publishing Group, Inc. Used by permission of the publisher.

American Anthropological Association for excerpts from T. P. Coffin, ed., Indian Tales of North America.

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., for excerpts from Otto Rank, The Myth of the Birth of the Hero and Other Writings, edited by Philip Freund. Copyright 1932, 1936, 1959 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright renewed, 1960, 1964, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Bear and Company, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico, for excerpts from Brian Swimme, The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story. Copyright 1984 by Bear and Company, Inc.

Excerpts from Lost Goddesses of Early Greece by Charlene Spretnak. Copyright 1978 by Charlene Spretnak. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press and the author.

From James B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Relating to the Old Testament. Copyright 1950, 1955, 1969 by Princeton University Press. Excerpt, pgs. 60-72, reprinted with permission of Princeton University Press.

From Heinrich Zimmer, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization, ed. Joseph Campbell. Bollingen Series VI. Copyright 1946, 1973 renewed by Princeton University Press. Excerpt, pgs. 3-11, reprinted with permission of Princeton University Press.

Excerpt from The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus is reprinted from Three Greek Plays, translated by Edith Hamilton, by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright 1937 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright renewed 1965 by Doris Fielding Reid.

From The Gods of the Greeks by C. Kerenyi. Copyright 1951 Thames and Hudson. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Excerpt from American Indian Mythology by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin, editors. Copyright 1968 by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin. Reprinted by permission of Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc.

Excerpts from Plains Indian Mythology by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachlin. Copyright 1975 by Alice Marriott and Carol K. Rachiin. Reprinted by permission of Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc.

Excerpt from Crowells Handbook of Classical Mythology, edited by Edward Tripp. Copyright 1970 by Edward Tripp. Reprinted by permission of Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc.