Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-484) and index.
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I. The Chronicler's Tale -- II. The Figure in Finland -- III. The Iranian Parallel -- IV. History, Myth and Reality -- Intermezzo: A Guide for the Perplexed -- V. The Unfolding in India -- VI. Amlodhi's Quern -- VII. The Many-Colored Cover -- VIII. Shamans and Smiths -- IX. Amlodhi the Titan and His Spinning Top -- X. The Twilight of the Gods -- XI. Samson Under Many Skies -- XII. Socrates' Last Tale -- XIII. Of Time and the Rivers -- XIV. The Whirlpool -- XV. The Waters from the Deep -- XVI. The Stone and the Tree -- XVII. The Frame of the Cosmos -- XVIII. The Galaxy -- XIX. The Fall of Phaethon -- XX. The Depths of the Sea -- XXI. The Great Pan Is Dead -- XXII. The Adventure and the Quest -- XXIII. Gilgamesh and Prometheus -- Epilogue: The Lost Treasure.
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"In this classic work of scientific and philosophical inquiry, the authors track world myths to a common origin in early man's descriptions of cosmological activity, arguing that these remnants of ancient astronomy, suppressed by the Greeks and Romans and then forgotten, were really a form of preliterate science"--Publisher marketing.