Guide to the GodsGuide to the Gods
This unique and fascinating volume features every type of deity from every culture in all regions of the world, from prehistory to the present.
This unique and fascinating volume features every type of deity from every culture in all regions of the world, from prehistory to the present.
Guide to the Gods features the familiar gods and goddesses of the ancient Near East, as well as those of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas: deities associated with creation, with the heavens, with the earth, with the weather, and with nearly every aspect of human life-from love, sex, marriage, and economic endeavors to prophecy, ritual, magic, and healing. The deities are categorized by function and attribute, and entries are alphabetized within each category. Every entry includes at least one citation to a printed primary or secondary source.
Guide to the Gods represents a major contribution to the fields of anthropology, religious studies, and folklore. Students, scholars, researchers, and writers will find it an invaluable research tool. This work is an entertaining and important reference source that will be a necessary addition to public, academic, and school library collections.
- A–Z entries in each category that include at least one citation to a printed primary or secondary source
Identifies primordial beings, as well as gods of the sky, sun, moon, darkness, stars, weather, animals, earth, fire, water, metals, nature, sea, life, fertility, health, agriculture, trades, arts, culture, luck, justice, love, marriage, and war
A comprehensive reference guide that includes some 20,000 entries covering every type of deity from every culture in all regions of the world, from prehistory to the present. The approach is anthropological, grouping together supernatural beings from different countries and different tribes on the basis of their functions and attributes. To facilitate further research, every entry includes at least one citation to printed primary or secondary sources. Published in cooperation with the UCLA Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [1992], ©1992
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