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catalog alternative "From primitives to Zen. Chap. 1. Gods, goddesses, and supernatural beings".
catalog contributor b1123610.
catalog contributor b1123611.
catalog created "[1974]".
catalog date "1974".
catalog date "[1974]".
catalog dateCopyrighted "[1974]".
catalog description "A Vedic hymn to the Goddess Earth (Atharva Veda, XII,1, selections) -- Vishnu, the Cosmic God (Vishnu Puriana, 3,17,14-34) -- Krishna's epiphany (Bhagavad Giitia, XI, selections) -- To each generation the Tathiagata announces his name and declares that he has entered Nirviana (Saddharmapundarika, XV, 268-72) -- The Bodhisattva's infinite compassion (Shikshiasamuccaya, 280-2, Vajradhvaha-siutra) -- The Sun goddess Amaterasu and the Storm God (Susa-no-o (Nihongi, I, 40-5).".
catalog description "Australian supernatural beings -- Nzambi, the high god of the Bakongo -- The Supreme being of the Isoko (Southern Nigeria) -- Ngai, the high god of the Kikuyu -- Leza, the high god of the Ba-ila of Northern Rhodesia -- The Supreme being of the Herero -- Raluvhimba, the high god of the Venda -- Wakan Tanka, the supreme deity of the Dakota -- The "Great Spirit" of the Lenape -- Tirawa, the supreme god of the Venda -- The Maori supreme being (Polynesia) -- The Universal mother and supreme deity (Kagaba people, Colombia) -- A South American epiphany of the Sun God (Apinayie tribe, Brazil) -- The Master of the Caribou (Naskapi Indians, Labrador Peninsula) -- Hainuwele and the "creative murder" (Ceram, New Guinea).".
catalog description "Bibliography: p. 158-161.".
catalog description "Continued : Muhammad speaks of Allah : "there is no god but he .. (Koran, II, 256-9 ; VI, 102-3) -- Allah is all-knowing, all powerful : the creator! (Koran, XXVII, 61-5; XXX, 47-54; XXXv, 36-9) -- Allah "is the first and the last," the creator, maker, and shaper ... He has knowledge of everything (Koran, LVII, 1-5; LVIII, 7-8; LIX, 23-5) -- Allah is light (Koran, XXIV, 34-44).".
catalog description "Creation by thought (Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin) -- Omaha cosmogony : at the beginning the world was in God's mind -- Creation from mere apperance (Uitoto of Colombia, South America) -- Io and the Maori cosmogony -- Polynesian theogony and cosmogony (Society Islands) -- An Earth-diver creation myth (Maidu Indians of California) -- The Beginning of the world (Yauelmani Yokuts of California) -- An African cosmogony (Boshongo, a central Bantu tribe of the Lunda Cluster) -- The Maya-Quichie genesis (Popol Vuh, chapter 1) -- Japanese cosmogony (Nihongi and Ko-ji- ki) -- Egyptian cosmogony and theogony (The Book of overthrowing Apophis) -- Mesopotamian cosmgony (Enuma elish) -- "Who can say whence it all came, and how creation happened? (Rig Veda, X, 129) -- Indian cosmogony (The Laws of Manu, I, 5-16) -- The Creation of the world according to the Upanishads -- Hesiod's throgony and cosmogony (Theogony, 116-210) -- Zorastrian dualist cosmogony : Ohrmazd and Ahri-man (Greater Bundahishn, I, 18-26).".
catalog description "Enki, a Sumerian high god -- The Egyptian high god in the age of the Coffin Texts, (Coffin Texts, 714) -- Atum, a bisexual high god (Coffin Texts, I, 161, ff.) -- Debate between Osiris and the high god (Book of the Dead, chapter 175) -- Amenhotep IV and the Hymn to Aten -- Varuna, the all-knowing god (Rig Veda, I, 25, 1-3, 7-14) -- "King Varuna is there ..." (Atharva Veda, IV, 16, 1-6) -- Varuna and Indra (Rig Vda, IV, 42, 1-7, 10) -- "What god shall we adore with our oblation?" (Rig Veda, X, 121,1-10) -- "Indra : who as soon as born supassed the gods in power" (Rig Veda, II,12,1-5, 13).".
catalog description "The Cast skin : a Melanasian myth -- The Stone and the banana : an Indonesian myth -- The Moon and the resurrection : an Australian muyth -- The Cruel bird : an Australian myth -- Maui and Hine-nui-te-po : a Polynesian myth -- The Flood narrative from the Gilgameshe Epic -- A Myth of the deluge from ancient India (Shatapatha-Briahmana, 1, 8, 1-6).".
catalog description "To Pythian Apollo (The Homeric Hymns, III, 179 ff.) -- The Earth, Mother of all (The Homeric Hymns, XXX) -- Hercules : his labours, his death, his apotheosis (Apollodorus : The Library, II; IV, 8-VII,7) -- Demeter and the founding of the Eleusian mysteries (The Homeric Hymns : to Demeter, II, 185-299) -- Zalmoxis, the god of the Getae (Herodotus : History, IV, 93-6) -- Zarathustra presents a "summary of the doctrine" (Giathia : Yasna 45) -- Giathia of the choice : Zarathustra reveals the exemplary choice which took place at the beginning of the world (Giathia : Yasna 30 -- The Second Giathia of the choice (Giathia : Yasna 31).".
catalog extent "xiii, 162 p.".
catalog identifier "0060621362 (pbk.)".
catalog issued "1974".
catalog issued "[1974]".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "New York, Harper & Row".
catalog subject "BL74 .E42 1974".
catalog subject "Religions History Sources.".
catalog tableOfContents "A Vedic hymn to the Goddess Earth (Atharva Veda, XII,1, selections) -- Vishnu, the Cosmic God (Vishnu Puriana, 3,17,14-34) -- Krishna's epiphany (Bhagavad Giitia, XI, selections) -- To each generation the Tathiagata announces his name and declares that he has entered Nirviana (Saddharmapundarika, XV, 268-72) -- The Bodhisattva's infinite compassion (Shikshiasamuccaya, 280-2, Vajradhvaha-siutra) -- The Sun goddess Amaterasu and the Storm God (Susa-no-o (Nihongi, I, 40-5).".
catalog tableOfContents "Australian supernatural beings -- Nzambi, the high god of the Bakongo -- The Supreme being of the Isoko (Southern Nigeria) -- Ngai, the high god of the Kikuyu -- Leza, the high god of the Ba-ila of Northern Rhodesia -- The Supreme being of the Herero -- Raluvhimba, the high god of the Venda -- Wakan Tanka, the supreme deity of the Dakota -- The "Great Spirit" of the Lenape -- Tirawa, the supreme god of the Venda -- The Maori supreme being (Polynesia) -- The Universal mother and supreme deity (Kagaba people, Colombia) -- A South American epiphany of the Sun God (Apinayie tribe, Brazil) -- The Master of the Caribou (Naskapi Indians, Labrador Peninsula) -- Hainuwele and the "creative murder" (Ceram, New Guinea).".
catalog tableOfContents "Continued : Muhammad speaks of Allah : "there is no god but he .. (Koran, II, 256-9 ; VI, 102-3) -- Allah is all-knowing, all powerful : the creator! (Koran, XXVII, 61-5; XXX, 47-54; XXXv, 36-9) -- Allah "is the first and the last," the creator, maker, and shaper ... He has knowledge of everything (Koran, LVII, 1-5; LVIII, 7-8; LIX, 23-5) -- Allah is light (Koran, XXIV, 34-44).".
catalog tableOfContents "Creation by thought (Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin) -- Omaha cosmogony : at the beginning the world was in God's mind -- Creation from mere apperance (Uitoto of Colombia, South America) -- Io and the Maori cosmogony -- Polynesian theogony and cosmogony (Society Islands) -- An Earth-diver creation myth (Maidu Indians of California) -- The Beginning of the world (Yauelmani Yokuts of California) -- An African cosmogony (Boshongo, a central Bantu tribe of the Lunda Cluster) -- The Maya-Quichie genesis (Popol Vuh, chapter 1) -- Japanese cosmogony (Nihongi and Ko-ji- ki) -- Egyptian cosmogony and theogony (The Book of overthrowing Apophis) -- Mesopotamian cosmgony (Enuma elish) -- "Who can say whence it all came, and how creation happened? (Rig Veda, X, 129) -- Indian cosmogony (The Laws of Manu, I, 5-16) -- The Creation of the world according to the Upanishads -- Hesiod's throgony and cosmogony (Theogony, 116-210) -- Zorastrian dualist cosmogony : Ohrmazd and Ahri-man (Greater Bundahishn, I, 18-26).".
catalog tableOfContents "Enki, a Sumerian high god -- The Egyptian high god in the age of the Coffin Texts, (Coffin Texts, 714) -- Atum, a bisexual high god (Coffin Texts, I, 161, ff.) -- Debate between Osiris and the high god (Book of the Dead, chapter 175) -- Amenhotep IV and the Hymn to Aten -- Varuna, the all-knowing god (Rig Veda, I, 25, 1-3, 7-14) -- "King Varuna is there ..." (Atharva Veda, IV, 16, 1-6) -- Varuna and Indra (Rig Vda, IV, 42, 1-7, 10) -- "What god shall we adore with our oblation?" (Rig Veda, X, 121,1-10) -- "Indra : who as soon as born supassed the gods in power" (Rig Veda, II,12,1-5, 13).".
catalog tableOfContents "The Cast skin : a Melanasian myth -- The Stone and the banana : an Indonesian myth -- The Moon and the resurrection : an Australian muyth -- The Cruel bird : an Australian myth -- Maui and Hine-nui-te-po : a Polynesian myth -- The Flood narrative from the Gilgameshe Epic -- A Myth of the deluge from ancient India (Shatapatha-Briahmana, 1, 8, 1-6).".
catalog tableOfContents "To Pythian Apollo (The Homeric Hymns, III, 179 ff.) -- The Earth, Mother of all (The Homeric Hymns, XXX) -- Hercules : his labours, his death, his apotheosis (Apollodorus : The Library, II; IV, 8-VII,7) -- Demeter and the founding of the Eleusian mysteries (The Homeric Hymns : to Demeter, II, 185-299) -- Zalmoxis, the god of the Getae (Herodotus : History, IV, 93-6) -- Zarathustra presents a "summary of the doctrine" (Giathia : Yasna 45) -- Giathia of the choice : Zarathustra reveals the exemplary choice which took place at the beginning of the world (Giathia : Yasna 30 -- The Second Giathia of the choice (Giathia : Yasna 31).".
catalog title "From primitives to Zen. Chap. 1. Gods, goddesses, and supernatural beings".
catalog title "Gods, goddesses, and myths of creation; a thematic source book of the history of religions.".
catalog type "History. fast".
catalog type "Sources. fast".
catalog type "text".