Comparative Mythology (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Comparative Mythology Friday, September 25 2009.

• Arising from almost 30 years' teaching experience and from a profound and vast scholarship, Puhvel's study represents a major contribution to his field. It begins with a detailed survey of Indo-European mythsthose of India, Iran, Greece, and Rome, of the Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, and Slavic culturesand proceeds to a cross-cultural examination of a number of themes: God and Warrior; King and Virgin; Horse and Ruler; Fire in Water; Twin and Brother. While Puhvel eschews any particular interpretive methodology or theory, his book is not merely a reference volume. Underlying his exposition is the hypothesis that the myths of these cultures is traceable to a common ancestry. Specialists and laypersons alike will find much to ponder in these pages, which are written in a surprisingly readable and lively fashion. Paul E. Muller-Ortega, Religious Studies Dept., Michigan State Univ. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Comparative Mythology Tuesday, July 28 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jaan Puhvel: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Comparative Mythology Friday, July 17 2009.

• While "mythology" is the study of myth, a look at the history of mythology is a study of the study of myth, thus a sort of "metamythology" not unlike the history of science or the history of any other branch of scholarly endeavor.