The Wisdom of the Serpent : : The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection. / / Maud Oakes, Joseph Lewis Henderson.
The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It d...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1991 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology : 57 ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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