God : myths of the male divine / David Leeming and Jake Page.
Material type:
TextNew York: Oxford University Press, 1996Description: xii, 196p.; ill.; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195093062
- BL473 .L44 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-191) and index.
1 The birth of the archetype: trickster/shaman/animal master. -- 2 The rise of the archetype: divine child/goddess consort/dying god. -- 3 The marriage and divorce of the archetype: sky god and earth mate. -- 4 The dominance of the archetype: king god. -- 5 The theologizing of the archetype: the creator god. -- 6 The universalizing of the archetype: god as self and god within
'He has been a trickster, a shaman, a divine child; he has been a sacrificial victim, a consort of the earth goddess, a warrior, a sky king; and the creator, a distant and impersonal immensity. He is the male divine, seen in the many gods of myth, and his life story is told here in this graceful and illuminating account....'
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