Asian Mythologies

Asian Mythologies
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 404
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ISBN-10 : 0226064565
ISBN-13 : 9780226064567
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Book Synopsis Asian Mythologies by : Yves Bonnefoy

Download or read book Asian Mythologies written by Yves Bonnefoy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-05-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 130 articles Aisan mythologies and cover such topics as Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Chinese cosmology and demons, and the Japanese conceptions of the afterlife and the "vital spirit". Also includes myths from Turkey, Korea, Tibet, and Mongolia. Illustrations.


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