A01=Joseph Lewis Henderson
A01=Maud Oakes
All things
Ancient Mesopotamian religion
Anunnaki
Attis
Author_Joseph Lewis Henderson
Author_Maud Oakes
Avidya (Hinduism)
Black Elk
Bodhisattva
Brahma
Buddhism
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Category=QRVG
Christianity
Consciousness
Daksha
Death anxiety (psychology)
Deity
Dismemberment
Eleusinian Mysteries
Elijah
Emily Dickinson
Enlil
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Ereshkigal
Fertility rite
Five Suns
Frigg
Great Goddess
Heinrich Zimmer
Inanna
Incarnation
Individuation
Ishtar
Izanagi
Leaves of Grass
Mircea Eliade
Mother goddess
Mourning
Myth
Mythology
Nataraja
Old Testament
Phallus
Philosopher
Philosophy
Pity
Poetry
Princeton University Press
Psychology
Puranas
Reincarnation
Religion
Resurrection of the dead
Rite
Seven stages (Yogi)
Shamanism
Shiva
Solar deity
Symptom
Tammuz (deity)
Tammuz (Hebrew month)
Temple of Isis (Pompeii)
Tezcatlipoca
Thought
Tomb
Trees in mythology
University of Oklahoma Press
Upanishads
Urshanabi
Utnapishtim
V.
Vishnu
Vishvakarman
Vocation
Product details
- ISBN 9780691020648
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 Sep 1990
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations. "This is a classic work in analytical psychology that offers crucial insights on the meaning of death symbolism (and its inevitably accompanying rebirth and resurrection symbolism) as part of the great theme of initiation, of which [Henderson] is the world's foremost psychological interpreter. This material is really the next step after the hero myth that Joseph Campbell has made so popular, and provides an understanding of how not to use the hero myth in an inflated way as a psychology of mastery, but as an attainment progressively to be died beyond. [Henderson] is helped by the presence of Maud Oakes, who is a trained anthropologist with exquisite taste in her choice of mythic materials and respect for their original contexts."--John Beebe
