Myth in Human History

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Call Number: BOCD 201.3 Vo Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 6-week checkout	BOCD 201.3 Vo Oversize	6-week checkout	On Shelf

36 lectures (30 min. each)
Compact discs.
Disc 1. Myth and meaning ; The continuing importance of myth -- Disc 2. Creation myths ; Mesopotamian creation : Enuma Elish -- Disc 3. Hebrew creation myths ; Emergence and world-parent creation myths -- Disc 4. Cosmic egg and ex nihilo creation myths ; Earth-diver and dismembered God creation myths -- Disc 5. Mesopotamian and Hebrew flood myths ; Other flood myths -- Disc 6. Myths of cosmic destruction ; Greek and Norse pantheons.
Disc 7. The great goddess remembered ; The goddess : Inanna and Dumuzi -- Disc 8. The goddess : Isis and Osiris ; The eclipse of the goddess -- Disc 9. Shamans and vegetation gods ; Sky gods and earth goddesses -- Disc 10. Creator gods ; Gods and goddesses of India -- Disc 11. Hero myths ; Mythic heroes : Gilgamesh -- Disc 12. Mythic heroes : King Arthur ; Jason and the Argonauts.
Disc 13. The monomyths of Rank and Campbell ; Mythic heroes : Mwindo -- Disc 14. Female heroes : Demeter and Hester Prynne ; Psyche and Beauty -- Disc 15. The trickster in mythology ; Tricksters from around the world -- Disc 16. Native American tricksters ; African tricksters -- Disc 17. Mythic tricksters : Eshu and Legba ; The places of myth : rocks and lakes -- Disc 18. The places of myth : mountains ; sacred trees.
Taught by professor Grant L. Voth.

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