Ancient Religions & Mythologies

This is a scintillating volume on the mythologies of the afterlife in the world religions from various eras. Tales of Lights and Shadows offers a f...

Exploring the practice of living resurrection in ancient Egyptian, Phoenician, Greek, Persian, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Celtic, and Native Americ...

Ancestors are part of our shared humanity, we all have them. Ancestry in the guise of race, has been used as a tool to divide. Even so, it might ye...

This examination of the heroic journey in world mythology casts the protagonist as a personification of nature-a botanical hero one might say-who b...

There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far out...