TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eliade,Mircea
TI  - Essential sacred writings from around the world
SN  - 0062503049
AV  - BL74 .F76 1992 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - San Francisco, CA
PB  - HarperSanFrancisco
KW  - Religions
KW  - FAST
N1  - Orig. pub. as From primitives to Zen; a thematic sourcebook of the history of religions, New York, Harper & Row, 1967; 1 Gods, goddesses, and supernatural beings. 
2 Myths of creation and of origin. 
3 Man and the sacred. 
4 Death, afterlife, eschatology. 
5 Specialists of the sacred; from medicine men to mystics and founders of religions.
6 Speculations on man and god
N2  - '...this comprehensive anthology contains writings vital to all the major non-Western religious traditions, arranged thematically.  Here are colorful descriptions of deities, creation myths, depictions of death and the afterlife, teachings on the relationship between humanity and the sacred, religious rituals and practices, and prayers and hymns.'
ER  -