ISBN: 0226064565
UNIV OF CHICAGO PRESS
1993 - Paperback - 400 Seiten

These 130 articles explore mythologies in societies from India to Japan. Among the many topics are Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Indonesian rites of passage, Chinese cosmology and demons, and Japanese conceptions of the afterlife and the "vital spirit". The mythological traditions of Turkey, Korea, Tibet, and Mongolia are also included.