The origins of the world's mythologies

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This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly invented the modern study of myth and religion. Focusing on the oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology, comparative linguistics and human population genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs a single original African source for our collective myths, dating back some 100,000 years. Identifying features shared by this Out of Africa" mythology and its northern Eurasian offshoots

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BL 312 W58 2011

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Oxford University Press : Dover Publications., 2012

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xx, 665 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

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English

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9780199812851

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Religions. Mythology. Rationalism

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