Wisdom of the serpent; myths of death, rebirth and resurrection

By:

Henderson, Joseph L

Contributor(s):

Oakes, Maud

Material type: Text

TextSeries: (Patterns of myth) (Mythos; the Princeton/Bollingen series in world mythology)NY Princeton Univ. Press c1990Description: 262p; illus.; appendix;bibliog. notes; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0-691-02064-7

Subject(s):

Abstract: 'Henderson and Oakes trace the images and patterns of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, the cycles of nature, and universal human responses in art and dreaming. The authors dramatize the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitablility into a transcendent freedom beyond the individual's limitations.'

List(s) this item appears in: Animal Symbolism

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Orig. pub. by G. Braziller, NY, 1963.

'Henderson and Oakes trace the images and patterns of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, the cycles of nature, and universal human responses in art and dreaming. The authors dramatize the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitablility into a transcendent freedom beyond the individual's limitations.'

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