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Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals - India by Joseph Campbell Powells.com Staff Pick An interesting portrait of Joseph Campbell early in his career, Baksheesh and Brahman is a collection of journal entries, drawings, and photographs from his trip to India in 1954, right after he finished editing Heinrich Zimmer's works on Indian art and... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Celtic Mysteries: The Ancient Religion by John Sharkey Synopsis Discusses the religion of the ancient Celts and shows burial chambers, standing stones, cromlechs, and sacred wells in Ireland.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book: 10 3/4 Anniversary Edition by Brian Froud Publisher Comments In 1995 Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book was released to an unsuspecting public. Called "an unstoppable phenomenon" by its publisher, it became an immediate international best-seller. Now 2005 can be named the Year of Lady Cottington with the 10th... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Book of Lilith by Barbara Blac Koltuv Publisher Comments Lilith is the mythological she-demon of the night known to many cultures. It is said that Adam's original consort was Lilith, and she represents the first Eve. Lilith is an archetypal part of the self, and this book helps modern men and women reconect... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Superstitions (Little Giant Encyclopedias) by Diagram Group Publisher Comments If you're about to get on a plane, what should you do--and avoid doing--to assure a safe flight? What does it mean if you see an ambulance zoom by? And is a black cat always unlucky? Though we may say we don't believe in superstitions, they have an... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Urban Legends: 666 Absolutely True Stories That Happened to a Friend...of a Friendb&of a Friend by Thomas J Craughwell Publisher Comments Combining Black Dog’ s three very successful hardcover collections of “ urban legends” (Alligators in the Sewer, The Baby on the Car Roof, and The Cat in the Dryer) into one stupendous volume, Urban Legends is the ultimate... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Celtic Symbols by Sabine Heinz Publisher Comments What is it about the arts of the ancient Celts that make them so fascinating for today’s fashions and jewelry, graphic design, and even architecture? It’s as though their ancient magical powers still cast a spell over us. It’s easy to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Japanese Tales by Royall Tyler Publisher Comments A collection of 220 dazzling tales from medieval Japan is selected and editedby the acclaimed translator of "The Tale of Genji."... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Greeks and Their Gods (Ariadne Series) by W K C Guthrie Publisher Comments The primary aim of this book is to serve as a kind of religious companion to the Greek classics. It does not so much set out to interest specialists as to be useful to those who enjoy Greek literature, whether original or in translation, and have made... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, 2nd Edition by William Thompson Publisher Comments In this book, William Irwin Thompson explores the nature of myth. Acknowledging the persuasive power of myth to create and inform culture, he weaves the human ability to create life with and communicate through symbols with myths based on male and female... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Mythology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols by Wolfram Eberhard Publisher Comments This unique and authoritative guide describes more than 400 important Chinese symbols, explaining their esoteric meanings and connections. Their use and development in Chinese literature and in Chinese custom and attitudes to life are traced lucidly and... (read more) Your price $23.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gumbo YA-YA: Folk Tales of Louisiana by Lyle Saxon Publisher Comments The living folklore of Louisiana returns in this new edition of the classic long considered the finest collection of Louisiana folk tales and customs ever chronicled. A charming look at the legends and practices of the bayou country, especially New... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bulfinch's Mythology (Modern Library) by Thomas Bulfinch Publisher Comments An unabridged edition of the greatest stories ever told as chronicled by Thomas Bulfinch available in paperback. Almost one hundred and fifty years ago, Thomas Bulfinch collected the great tales of the gods and goddesses of Greek and Roman antiquity; of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Once and Future Myths: The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives by Phil Cousineau Publisher Comments Drawing from history, movies, pop culture, and his own life experience, filmmaker and writer Phil Cousineau shows how ancient myths continue to affect and shape our contemporary lives. Each chapter moves from the ancient to the modern, from the once, to... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Greek Myths Volume 2 by Robert Graves Publisher Comments A modern retelling of the creation myths, the legends of the birth and lives of the Olympians, and the stories of Theseus, Oedipus, Heracles, the Argonauts, and the Trojan War.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit (Penguin Classics) by Wendy Doniger Publisher Comments Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon by George Dasent Publisher Comments Remarkable collection -- the only complete edition of these wonderful tales -- contains scores of classic Norwegian tales made even more attractive by 77 illustrations by famed children's artists.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power by Vicki Noble Publisher Comments A study of the "double goddess" iconography prominent in Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures that expands our understanding of female sovereignty. Celebrates this archetype of sacred female bonding and depicts a vast array of relationships women may form... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (Works by Erich Neumann) by Erich Neumann Publisher Comments Neumann examines how the Feminine has been experienced and expressed in many cultures from prehistory to our own time. Appearing as goddess and demon, gate and pillar, garden and tree, hovering sky and containing vessel, the Feminine is seen as an... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends by Jeannette L Faurot Publisher Comments Exotic, clever, and poignant, Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends invites you into a magically distinctive world. Originating from the far corners of the globe - China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia - these... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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