The Wisdom of the Serpent : : The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection. /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
VerfasserIn:
Henderson, Joseph Lewis,
Oakes, Maud,
MitwirkendeR:
Henderson, Joseph L.,
Oakes, Maud,
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 ; 648
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • LIST OF PLATES
  • LIST OF LINE DRAWINGS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • MYTHS OF DEATH, REBIRTH, AND RESURRECTION
  • INITIATION AS A SPIRITUAL EDUCATION
  • INITIATION AS PSYCHIC LIBERATION
  • MYTHS OF RESURRECTION
  • APPENDIX: FURTHER EXAMPLES OF THE THEME OF DEATH AND REBIRTH IN POETRY
  • NOTES ON THE PLATES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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