Historical atlas of world mythology, V.2: The way of the seeded earth, Part 3: Mythologies of the primitive planters: the Middle and Southern Americas

Part 1 - Agricultural developments in the Mesoamerican matrix. The tide of history. The Olmec enigma. Part 2 - Agricultural rites and myths of Middle America. Southwestern North America. Northwest Mexico: the Huichol. A new world discovered and divided. The Antilles. Part 3 - South American agricultural rites and myths. The South American rain forest. The Pacific Coast.

'...Joseph Campbell continues his exploration of the mythological traditions of the earliest American agriculturalists by first examining the Mesoamerican territory known to archaeologists as the "Gran Chichimeca." This geographic area, he argues, serving as a kind of cultural bridge between the northern and southern hemispheres, provides substantial evidence of a flourishing trade--not only of goods and services, but also of mythological perspectives and practices--between widely scattered communities at a very early date.'

Hardcover