Asian mythologies
Éditeur :
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN :
9780226064567
Date de publication :
15 mai 1993
Dimensions :
2,8 x 2,2 x 0,2 cm
Poids :
964 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
These 130 articles explore mythologies in societies from India to Japan. Among the many topics are Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Indonesian rites of passage, Chinese cosmology and demons, and Japanese conceptions of the afterlife and the "vital spirit."