Parallel Myths (52 page)

The Thoughts of Brahma: Ibid., p. 65.

Brahma Is Lonely:
The Upanishads
, edited and translated by F. Max Müller, vol. II, p. 33.

THE CREATION MYTH OF IRAN
: Jon Hinnels,
Persian Mythology
, pp. 21-22.

CREATION MYTHS OF AFRICA
: The Yoruba: Geoffrey Parrinder,
African Mythology
, pp. 21-22.

Madagascar: Ibid., pp. 45-46.

CREATION MYTHS OF EGYPT
: The Watery Abyss: Adolf Erman,
Life in Ancient Egypt;
Memphite Theology of Creation, source given in text.

Pritchard, James B., Editor,
The Ancient Near East, Vol. I
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958.

The Creation Myth of Japan: Joseph Campbell,
The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology
, pp. 466-73.

THE BABYLONIAN CREATION MYTH
: James B. Pritchard, ed.
The Ancient Near East, Vol. I: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures
, the translation of this portion by S.N. Kramer, pp 28-37.

THE POLYNESIAN CREATION MYTHS
: Padraic Colum,
Orpheus: Myths of the World
, pp. 253-55; Roslyn Poignant,
Oceanic Mythology
, pp. 88-91; Martha Beckwith,
Hawaiian Mythology
, pp. 64-68.

CREATION MYTHS OF THE AMERICAS
: Sioux: Given in Text.

Pawnee: Natalie Curtis,
The Indians Book
, pp. 99-102; Cottie A. Burland,
North American Indian Mythology
, p. 85.

Arikara: Burland, p. 77.

Iroquois: Burland, p. 66.

Yuma: Curtis, p. 562-68

Zuni: Lewis Spence,
The Myths of the North American Indians
, p. 106.

The Playanos of Southern California: Ibid.

Maya: Colum, pp. 285-89; Irene Nicholson,
Mexican and Central American Mythology
, pp. 76-77.

Inca: Harold Osborne,
South American Mythology
, pp. 76-79, 105.

THE BABYLONIAN CREATION MYTH:
The Ancient Near East
, edited by James B.

Pritchard, vol. I, pp. 31-34.

“The Creation;” James Weldon Johnson,
God’s Trombones
, in Victor Gollancz,
From Darkness to Light
, pp. 229-31.

Carl Sagan,
The Dragons of Eden
, pp. 92-93

THE SERPENT
: Campbell,
The Masks of Gold: Occidental Mythology
, pp. 9-13.

Carl Sagan,
The Dragons of Eden
, pp. 140-41.

Man and His Symbols
, edited by CG. Jung, pp. 153-55.

THE TREE
: Sagan, pp. 92-93. Jung, Ibid. Campbell, Ibid. Sagan, p. 140.

Chapter Four

A MODERN THEOLOGIAN’S INTERPRETATION OF THE FALL
: Paul Tillich,
Systematic Theology
, vol. II, pp. 31, 37.

THE TALMUDIC FALL
: Robert Graves and Raphael Patai,
Hebrew Myths
, pp. 76-78.

THE STORY OF POIA
: Spence, pp. 200-205.

THE FOUR AGES OF MAN:
Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism
, edited

and translated by Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, pp. 68-71.

THE FIVE SUNS
: Nicholson, pp. 53-54.

THE FIVE WORLDS
: Burland, pp. 92-96. Kloskurbeh The Teacher: Curtis, pp. 1-6.

THREE STORIES OF MAUI THE TRICKSTER
: Colum, pp. 254-60; Poignant, pp. 61-63.

THE ORIGIN OF MEDICINE
: Spence, pp. 249-50.

MURILÉ AND THE MOONCHIEF
: Parrinder, p. 73.

THE HUMAN RACE
is
SAVED
: Spence, pp. 257-60.

Chapter Five

TATA AND NENA:
Mitos Mexicanos
, edited by Octavio Mejia, pp. 139-41.

Creek-Natchez: Burland, p. 115.

Mojave-Apache: Curtis, pp. 330-31.

Cree: Burland, p. 57.

Algonquin: Spence, pp. 107-108.

Inca: Osborne, p. 98.

Egypt: Erman,
Life in Ancient Egypt
, pp. 267-69.

Chapter Six

TWO PERUVIAN LOVE STORIES
: Garcia Morales, J. and Villareal, A.,
Literatura Sur americana
, pp. 236-240; Osborne, pp. 98-102.

ANGUS OG
: T. W. Rolleston,
Celtic Myths and Lgends
, pp. 121-23.

ALGON AND THE SKY-GIRL
: Spence, pp. 152-56.

Chapter Seven

MORALITY TALES FROM MAHABHARATA
: Ananda Coomaraswamy and Sister Nivedita,
Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists
, pp. 367-74.

ANANSI THE SPIDER
: Parrinder, pp. 134-40.

Chapter Eight

THE STORY OF TWO BROTHERS:
The Ancient Near East
, edited by James B.

Pritchard, vol. I, pp. 12-16.

Nopatsis: Spence, pp. 184—87

Chapter Nine

All sources given in text.

Chapter Ten

PARE AND HUTU
: Poignant, p. 66.

SAYADIO IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD
: Spence, pp. 260-62.

Chapter Eleven

PARE AND HUTU
: Poignant, p. 66.

SAYADIO IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD
: Spence, pp. 260-262.

Chapter Twelve

Jeremiah Curtin: Colum, p. 5.

Sigmund Freud:
Totem and Taboo
, IV,
The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud
, A. A. Brill, ed. pp. 875-876

Ananda Coomaraswamy: Father Andrew M. Greeley,
Myths of Religion
, p. 13.

Nikolay Berdyayev:
The Modern Tradition
, edited by Richard Ellmann and Charles Feidelson, Jr., p. 674.

Carl Gustav Jung: Jung,
Memories, Dreams and Reflections
, p. 311.

George Santayana: Santayana,
Reason in Religion
, p. 49.

Alan Watts: Greeley, Ibid.

Thomas Mann:
The Modern Tradition
, p. 675.

Friedrich von Schlegel: Ibid., p. 662.

F. Max Müller: Ernst Cassirer,
Language and Myth
, p. 5.

Bruno Bettelheim: Bettelheim,
The Uses of Enchantment
, p. 35.

Robert Graves: Graves and Patai,
Hebrew Myths
, p. 11.

Bronislaw Malinowski: Colum, p. 5;
The Modern Tradition
, p. 633.

Claude Lévi-Strauss: Lévi-Strauss,
Myth and Meaning
, p. 17.

Joseph Campbell: Campbell,
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
, p. 3.

Hans Küng: Küng,
On Being a Christian
, pp. 414-5.

Carlos Fuentes: Wendy Faris,
Carlos Fuentes
, p. 18.

A. Sabatier: Coomaraswamy,
Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists
, p. viii. Rudolf Bultmann: Bultmann,
New Testament and Mythology & Other Basic Writings
, pp. 9-10, 97-99.

Reinhold Niebuhr: given in text.

Paul Tillich: Tillich,
Systematic Theology
, vol. 3., pp. 59-60.

Chapter Thirteen

Johann Jakob Bachofen: The source for all material on Bachofen is Henri F. Ellenberger,
The Discovery of the Unconscious
, pp. 218-23.

Robert Graves: Graves,
The Greek Myths
, vol. I, p. 13.

Émile Dürkheim, quoted by Wallwork,
Dürkheim: Morality and Milieu
, p. 140.

Émile Dürkheim: Marvin Harris,
Cultural Materialism
, p. 167.

Pierre Janet: The source for all material on Janet is Ellenberger, pp. 331-409.

Sigmund Freud: Peter Gay,
Freud: A Life For Our Time;
Ellenberger; Ernest Jones,
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud; The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud;
Carl Gustav Jung: C. G. Jung,
Memories, Dreams and Reflections
, p. 131; Campbell,
Myths to Live By
, p. 83; “Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious,” from
The Basic Works of C. G. Jung
, edited by Violet de Laszlo, p. 287; “The Collective Unconscious,”
The Pocket Jung
, edited by Joseph Campbell, p. 60; H. Richard Niebuhr,
Christ and Culture
, p. 44n; Lévi-Strauss,
Myth and Meaning
, pp. 8, 44; Harris,
Cultural Materialism
, pp. 167-68; Aiken and Barrett,
Twentieth Century Western Philosophers
, pp. 647-50.

Chapter Fourteen

All sources given in text.

Aiken, Henry, and Barrett, E., eds.
Twentieth Century Western Philosophers
. 4 vols. New York: Random House, 1962.

Alexander, Phillip S., ed. and trans.
Textual Sources for the Study of Judaism
. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes and Noble, 1984.

Arendt, Hannah.
The Life of the Mind
. 1971. Reprint. New York and San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978.

Assman, Hugo, and Mate, Reyes.
Sobre la Religión—II
. Salamanca: Sigúeme, 1975.

Attenborough, David.
Life on Earth: A Natural History
. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1979.

Beckwith, Martha.
Hawaiian Mythology
. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940.

Berdyayev, Nikolay.
Christian Existentialism
. Translated by D. A. Lowrie. New York: Harper, 1965.

Berry, Gerald L.
Religions of the World
. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1956.

Bettelheim, Bruno.
The Uses of Enchantment
. New York: Vintage Books, 1977.

Boas, Franz.
Anthropology and Modern Life
. New York: Dover, 1986.

Brill, A. A., ed.
The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud
. New York: Modern Library, 1966. 1938. Reprint.

Bultmann, Rudolf.
New Testament and Mythology & Other Basic Writings
. Selected, edited, and translated by Schubert M. Ogden. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.

Burland, Cottie A.
North American Indian Mythology
. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1985.

Campbell, Joseph.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1949.