The Mythic Image

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Call Number: 291.13 Ca
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"The final number-C-of Bollingen series"--P. [xiii]
Includes index.
I. THE WORLD AS DREAM: The Lord of Sleep -- The Lord of Death and Resurrection -- The wonder child -- The mighty goddess -- II. THE IDEA OF A COSMIC ORDER: Literate and non-literate traditions -- The world mountain -- The world mountain in Middle America -- The calendric round -- The revolving sphere of space-time -- The center of transformation -- III. THE LOTUS AND THE ROSE: The flower scepter -- The flower support -- The waters beneath and above -- The golden seed -- IV. TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE INNER LIGHT: Psychology and yoga -- The serpent guide -- The one thus come -- The wisdom of the yonder shore -- The Lotus ladder -- The return to Earth -- V. THE SACRIFICE: The willing sacrifice -- The magical, moral, and mystical orders of sacrifice -- The alter of blood -- The myth -- VI. THE WAKING.
Presents approximately 450 illustrations of mythic art from Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, European, and Olmec cultures as a basis for an exploration into the relation of dreams to myth.

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