King and the Corpse
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Brahma
Burial
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Censure
Chivalry
Christianity
Cremation
Daksha
Death and Life
Decapitation
Descent into Hell (novel)
Dolorous Stroke
Epic of Gilgamesh
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Erechtheus
Exorcism
Fisher King
Guinevere
Hunting knife
In Death
Investiture
John Chrysostom
King Ban
Knight
Lancelot
Lingam
Matter of Britain
Meriones (mythology)
Miser
Misery (novel)
Morgan le Fay
Mourning
Murder
Nebuchadnezzar II
Necromancy
Ordination
Owain
Paleolithic
Pellam
Pergamus
Pillory
Podalirius
Podarces
Puranas
Pyre
Round Table
Sayd
Seneschal
She Died
Sir Balan
Sir Balin
Sir Galahad (poem)
Smelting
Social death
Superiority (short story)
Teucer
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
The Britons
The Corpse
The Hanged Man (Tarot card)
The Other Hand
Vapours (disease)
Vedas
Veneration of the dead
Vishnu
Vortigern
Vyasa
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Product details
- ISBN 9780691279497
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A classic work of comparative mythology by acclaimed scholar Heinrich Zimmer
Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism. In retelling these tales, Zimmer discloses the meanings of their seemingly unrelated symbols and suggests the philosophical wholeness of their myths.
Heinrich Zimmer (1890–1943) was an Indologist, linguist, and historian of South Asian art. His books include Philosophies of India, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization, and The Art of Indian Asia (all Princeton). Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) was the author of many books on comparative mythology, including The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Masks of God.
