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The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection. - Mythos: The Princeton / Bollingen Series in World Mythology
Joseph Lewis Henderson
The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection. - Mythos: The Princeton / Bollingen Series in World Mythology
Joseph Lewis Henderson
Traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. This book dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations.
320 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 4, 1990 |
ISBN13 | 9780691020648 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 320 |
Dimensions | 140 × 214 × 21 mm · 426 g |
Language | English |
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