Here I present: Neil Philip, “Eyewitness Mythology, 2000.
INTRODUCTION.
Whether it’s the creation of the world, the fertility of the land, or a history of its people, each culture has its own mythology: a collection of stories that explain the world, passed down through the generations.
Neil Philip “Eyewitness Mythology”, 2000 is a book only seventy (70) pages. Each of the thirty (30) topics of the “table of contents” is listed BELOW. Topics sixteen (16) & twenty-one (21) are “Gods of war” & “Mythical Beasts” are shown ABOVE.
TABLE OF CONTENT.
- What is mythology?
- Creation of the world.
- The cosmos’.
- Sun and moon.
- Making humankind.
- Supreme beings.
- Floods and storms.
- The elements’.
- The natural world.
- Fertility and birth.
- Children of the gods.
- Ancestor worship.
- Evil forces.
- Super heroes.
- Divine weapons.
- Gods of war.
- Contacting the spirits.
- Love, fortune, and happiness.
- Tricksters.
- Animal idols.
- Mythical beasts.
- Painting the story.
- Universal creatures.
- Death and the underworld.
- Sacred sites.
- End of the world.
- Did you know?
- Mythical meanings.
- Find out more.
- Glossary.
COMMENTS.
Myth is storytelling in a world of languages, arranged as family tree shown BELOW. Nostratic and Dene-Caucasian are superphylums of languages shown BELOW. At the center is the Indo-European phylum of Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and others. Oral traditions pass myths through generations and Neil Philip, “Eyewitness Mythology”, 2000 is a book of images of these myths.
