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Myth
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Best book of history of Judaism written in centuries
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
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Who changed the sex of God? This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right-brain modes that venerated the Goddess, images, and feminine values.
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A big part of Hindu and Indian mythology is the lengthy Mahabharata, with stories about princes, princesses, monsters, and many mysterious creatures. Krishna is one of the prominent figures in many ancient mythology writings from this region, and his victories over evil have been applauded and believed by many.
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Very heavy reading
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A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality - but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America?
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"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system.
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The Fox Who Tried To Be A Hedgehog
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- Drone Boy
- 07-23-22
Good But Very North-American Centred
Segal's introduction into the historical study of myth is very rich in its account of the diverse ways myth has been considered in the past. The chapters develop logically and focus on myth's study in various domains of knowledge (science, religion, philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, anthropology), along with the various schools (the Cambridge Ritualists for example) which emerged throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on myth as it relates to ritual, and i also felt like the individual writer (i.e., Northrop Frye, Claude Levi-Strauss) break-downs were helpful, concise, and very condensed. They give you a good grasp of where your own ideas about myth might fit, and who to read next.
I did find Segal's focus on using the Adonis myth to explain how different scholars studied myth to be a little bit confusing in areas. Perhaps different examples from different cultures could have worked better here. I did also find the final chapter on myth today to be a little bit reductive, but there are no diagrams the author refers to that you cannot see, which has been a problem with the Oxford Introduction series. One final criticism/warning ( which will not concern a US listener) I have concerns the American-centred nature of the discourse. The author unconsciously assumes that his audience is a white, male, middle class heterosexual from North America, and this did render the introduction a little bit limited in areas. It came out very strongly in the psychoanalysis section, which I skipped on my second listening.
Another title on Audible i would recommend is "Classical Mythology" by Elizabeth Vandiver. Although i am no fan of the Great Courses series because of the pseudo-lecture-hall style they create, she presents a very detailed analysis of classical mythology, uses the ideas of many of the scholars Segal discusses here, but she does so in a much more detailed and inclusive manner. I definitely would not recommend the "Myth in Human History Series".
But it is great that Audible growing its mythography and anthropology content. You can also now listen to the Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough, and Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger as well.
Happy listening!
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