Orpheus : myths of the world / Padraic Colum ; twenty engravings by Boris Artzybasheff.
Series: Floris classicsPublication details: New York : The Macmillan Company, 1930.Description: xxxi, 327 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:- 0863155197
- 23 398.2
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Non-Loanable Book | Library | Reserve | 398.2 COL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 000449553 |
Published: New York : Macmillan, 1930.
Includes index.
Egyptian: Osiris and Isis -- Re, His Going-Down and Uprising -- Babylonian: In his Beginning -- Gilgamish -- The Story of Uta-Naphishtim and of the Deluge That Destroyed All That Was Earth -- Ishtar's Descent Into The World Below --
Persian: Jamshid the Resplendent -- Jewish Post-Christian Period: The Angels and the Creation and Fall of Man -- The Confounding of the Angel of Death --
Greek: In the Beginning -- Prometheus -- Pandora -- Demeter -- Orpheus -- Dionysos -- Apollo -- Herakles -- Roman: The Children of Mars -- Numa the Law-Giver -- The Sibyl -- Pomona and Vertumnus -- Graeco-Roman: Cupid and Psyche --
Celtic: Irish - Midir and Etain -- The Death of Conaire Mór, the King of Ireland --The Voyage of Bran to the Land of the Immortals --
Welsh - Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed and His Visit to Annwfn, the Realm of Faerie -- Math, the son of Mathonwy -- Finnish: Lemminkainen, His Destruction and His Restoration to Life --
Icelandic: In the Beginning -- The Building of the Wall -- Mimir -- Baldr -- Loki's Punishment -- The Children of Loki -- Ragna Rok, The Fate of the Gods --
Indian: Vedic - The Heavenly Nymph and Her Mortal Husband -- Epic - The Churning of the Ocean -- The Birth of the Ganges -- Savitri and the Lord of the Dead -- Damayanti's Choice -- Buddhist - Gotama's Attainment --
Chinese: In the Beginning -- The Weaver Maiden and The Herdsman --
Japanese -- The Sun Goddess and the Storm God and the Strife there was Between Them -- The First People --
Polynesian: New Zealand - In the Beginning -- New Zealand and Hawaii - Ma-ui the Fire-bringer -- How Ma-ui Strove to Win Immortality For All Creatures -- Pe-le, Hawaii's Goddess of Volanic Fire -- Pervuvian: Viracocha -- The Llama-Herder and the Virgin of the Sun -- Central American and Mexican: In the Beginning -- the Twin Heros and the Lords pf Xibalba -- Quetzalcoatl -- Quetzalcoat;'s Enemy -- The Gods of the Azteca -- The Azteca --
Zuni: Paiytuma and the Maidens of the Corn --
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